Ok so I want to make this race playable, so i follow along with the wiki tutorial to get an idea how to do such a thing.

1. I duplicate the original race.
2. I make the changes i want to make, check playable, adjust health regen, add some text, copy old races armor and the other bit, reduce the carrying weight lol ect ect
3. I save creating the new plug in.

I start skyrim to test it out, silly me forgets ESs hate new games with custom races. Skyrim is no exception, race doesnt show up as one of those to choose when starting the game. So i go back to CK to see if i can figure out how to change main quest to use generic responces to any unrecognized "race" oh and see if i can figure out why my race wasnt even there to choose from to begin with. Thats when i discover..... tahdahhhhhhhhhhhhh the only thing that got saved from my time and effort of duplicating and changing the duplicate into my custom race, was the race entry itself =( It was just an exact duplicate without any of the changes i had made. So i made all the changes again, saved, closed out the CK, and started it up again, loading the plugin and still the same thing. There's the entry for my new race, but none of the changes were saved. So before i go trying to figure out which quest is the first quest that needs fixing for custom races, and figuring out how to get my new race as selectable IG from the start..... I have to figure out WHY the CK isnt saving all the work im doing in it.

Any help would be appreciated. Ive modded alot in morrowind, a bit in oblivion, so im really flustered to be stumped so easy and so fast.