Been trying to find it. Apparently it got deleted because of the graphic title. But i found a post by the same guy who's not so pissed off now. http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1299588-losing-save-files/page__p__19566862#entry19566862. He says to start a new profile. I'm kinda sick so ill keep helping you find an answer. There were quite a few people that chimed in saying it happened to them too. Just for those who think Kronos is a moron, he's not. Apparently it is possible for the game to completely destroy your manual save files. How many manual saves did you have?

I had one pretty much. whenever I wanted to save on my main I'd just manually save it. hell I manually saved just before making that new game. then this saddening surprise kicked me in the nuts. thank you for your help though.

Yeah the other guy had two saves. Dunno what to tell you except "that svcks." You might do someone a favor and test it a bit to see wtf is going on exactly. I would but I'm on xbox and have 20 manual saves at all times lol. It's just how I roll with Bethesda.

Edit: I recall that he said there is a non-autosave at the character creation screen that was the cause of his two lost saves despite having auto-save turned completely off.

Well, I have to admit I stand corrected. I was assuming the OPer just wasn't paying attention to how the game worked, but it sounds like the PS3 has even more issues than I thought. You PS3 people really are getting the sharp end of the stick with this game, aren't you? Every time somebody complains about how buggy the game is I tend to reply "Oh good Lord, it isn't that bad" but I usually try and add "except for the PS3 people out there." Y'all are having it rough.

so what should I do? =(

If you want to be safe start a new profile for every character you make. That guy said it overwrote the only 2 manual saves he had at the character creation screen with what appeared to be a manual save. If it was me, I'd move whats left of my saves to my USB card. Then id save about 5 new saves, write down the time stamps, and start a new character just to see what was going on. Then I'd save new saves for that character, and right down some timestamps. Then I'd try to load the previous character and see if any of those saves were removed. And I'd keep trying stuff and post it over in the PS3 forum so that maybe by some lucky chance whatever is going on will get fixed.