so i just brought skyrim yesterday, after waiting as the ps3 version was apparently unplayable for alot of people. after playing the game for 3 hours i died and it just stayed there while everyone ran around attacking the dragon, so i restarted the game, i loads me back at the start when im a prisoner, BEFORE i even made my character. all this time i thought i was saving by hitting circle because it always said auto save. the reason i didn't save from the start menu is because the game wouldn't let me access any system settings apart from help, so i couldn't save/load/settings/controls, whenever i pressed x nothing happened. game is amazing its just this has really annoyed me and i have struggled to type this without swearing. can anyone help me as i don't want to start again for the same thing to happen, i was just thinking to delete everything of skyrim off my playstation and start fresh as have nothing to lose due to their being only 1 game save when im a prisoner at the start.

thanks in advance.

edit: im on the latest patch 2.04 (Europe)