Dead at end of patrol

[pallaeon]

Hi,

I'm new to GWX and I am having a slight difficulty. The campain starts a month before the war goes live and so I go out on my three day shake down cruise but when the game starts I find my self of the coast of Africa and to make matters worse at the end of my three day cruise if I exit the patrol and go to return to port it goes back to the main menu in the game and if I load the save game it says I'm dead.

Erm do I need to reinstall it all again? I'm running nasty vista.

Thanks