lol... yea, what we did was use the codes to gain our xp back up and basically ran through the game to where I last saved and yea... it sucked. I lost alot of good crap too. oh well.
One thing I'd like to add about this game is that the whole fact that you can pick up basically everything is cool first, "oh look at can pick up the candle stick, and the fork, and that leaf, oh cool I can carry that basket of bread" but gets real old real fast and it even gets in the way alot! I found myself getting caught stealing a bunch of times for accedently pressing "a" while facing a random item.