Problem - My single-player austosaves get deleted each time i launch the game.

[DragonRider]

Apparently, every time you start up the launcher, it deletes the save files.

So if you are going to play singleplayer, your best bet is to start the game from freelanser.exe in the EXE folder, since that was your saves don't get deleted.

But just a general warning, I've head that its not advised to play multyplayer using freelancer.exe
If you are going to play MP, back up your saves (located in Documents/My Games/FreelancerAccts) and start the game using the launcher.