I just received, installed and updated to 1.4 (german) galcivII dread lords, and after some trying around and figuring out the controls, i decided i want to play a faction heavily using trade to their benefit.

i went into the start new game/select a race screen and chose the drath. on the next customization screen i found out, that you can reset the distributed points and so have 10 again, with some core abilities remaining untouched, amongst them +25 diplomacy, +50 spying etc.
i wanted to further increase diplomacy, so for some of my 10 points i chose +10 diplomacy. but now i did not have 35 dip, but 10 dip instead of the original 25. i thought this was some displaying bug and i would actually have 35dip. so i started a game to find out. i checked the game screen on this and still had only 10dip.
however, i was surprised when i left that game, considering it spoiled, to start anew. now the +25dip the drath usually had are permanently vanished, and theres nothing else there instead either.
restarting game and reinstalling patch don't help. i haven't tried reinstalling the game.

am i getting something wrong here, or is the player supposed to alter races permanently? i would like to pick up the drath with their default settings now, but they are gone. how can i undo this?