so i played a char for a while. started over to make a diff type but cant load the previous char.. did my new one over ride the old one... can you only have one at a time?

Sounds like you didn't make a manual save on your old one.

The game only maintains two quicksave slots and two autosave slots. Each new one the game makes will save over one of the existing ones.

OH gawd your right, i understand. that was very stupid of me.. oh well. was only few hrs in.. rofl im an idiot.