Well,,, i don't know now i think Don was right.
After getting the CD I msg my current players i was installing it and i might have to forfeit if any problems.
I fully uninstalled the free version installed the CD updated patches and, lo and behold all save and PBEM games were still there.
After testing a saved game it worked fine,so i sent files to a current pbem player in a secured game and no problems at all same as before.
Seems
not everything is lost it could be my that computor does not do a full uninstall and for that i'm grateful.
Anyway thought I'd pass this info along.