December 4, 2011 9:36 AM EST
Dude I am so sorry, that really stinks. For the future, FWIW, in Fallout 3 and Oblivion, I'd always keep about 5 saves that were somewhat recent. So if you only have 1 save and constantly update it, you run the risk of saving over it w/ another character. But if you have 4 or 5 saves for each character, and accidentally save over your newest save, you can still revert back to one that was only an hour or so ago. I save super frequently, so I'd update the same save most of the time, then every few hours create a new save, and maybe delete the oldest one.