The Dink Network

I have been playing this for two days. The first time I started world 2, I was in some weird place where there were multiples of the same screens, and the screens weren't adjacent to the others. I thought maybe it was some kind of a puzzle, but when I kept getting stuck or frozen, I started again. This time, the screens looked ok, but after I talked to Janai, could not find any cabin. In that trial, all my stats etc., from world 1 were retained. Finally I started again. This time, I am on Hope Island, find Janai, eat, do the raft thing, etc. However, I have no life in my meter. When I fight the pillbugs I can kill them but no damage is done to me. When I find a gold heart, it lets me get it but it does nothing to my life meter. When I find red hearts, same thing. Also, my experience points and stuff don't increment when I fight, but do at some point later. OK. So I finally went to bed, saving the game. This morning I tried to load my saved game... as soon as the game comes up, I die next to the save thing. HELP!! (pretty please)