AreYouReady2Die

Hey all, fairly noob at server issues and old as hell... Anyways my group has been playing on a nondedicated server of one of us while playing for awhile.. Last night I decided to get a dedicated server through nodecraft and thought I was doing fine by deleting the pre-generated Galaxy, and replacing it with the non dedicated Galaxy files that we have been using for weeks, and it worked. however when we logged in no one had the right ships, it flipped who had what and some didn't have anything.. I ended up with the leaders stuff.. he ended up with nothing.. it's probably something stupid, anyone have a idea? Unfortunately don't have alot of info because we said screw it and restarted fresh but still have original save that we'd prefer to use...