well, i downloaded dayz commander and after a quick play with the settings discovered i could download all the the other dayz maps throught commander. i launched a game , and guess what ,i started with a character that i thought i had lost, with the few items that i had found previously. Hopefully everthing will be ok from now on. I would just like to say a big thankyou to all who offered soloutions to my original post and think that commander will be my prefered method of server selection in the future... THANKYOU ALL...