Kuro

No idea what's going on, but I'll try to help. Sometimes, when running a VN in admin mode, it might not properly recognize your save data. Don't ask me why, it just sometimes happens. I'm pretty sure that if you open the game normally you will be able to load your normal save files. As to your problem of being unable to save, can you save a screenshot and put it here? It might give us an idea of what's wrong.

I haven't ever used AppLocale, actually. While it might seem convenient, there's nothing wrong with changing the unicode settings in winvista+ Maybe the only side-effect from that is screwing up some subtitles when watching something in my native language, but since that's a rare occurrence, it might as well not affect me.