Alt has asked me to post here what seems to have solved her problems:  get new, unique fresh IDs for her additional regions from:

http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen

Please make sure you note how you wanted your terrain and it also wouldn't hurt to save any builds on additional island to xml in case they need restoration.

Charm

YVW, Alt, glad all that helped

I origionally read Sakai's post about setting up multiple terrains and used some of the UUID's from there and yes they were all unique.

Guess they didn't quite get along with each other.

I would recommend that perhaps his post incorporate that webpage that generates the UUID's, it's a good resource. ;]