Well, I'll probably need a new way to blacklist, since a lot of the entries are blacklist entries in the userfile that I had with many hosts listed. I can copy the entries out of my userfile before I do anything else and put them in a text file, meaning I have to remove the --host from each and every one of them to use with a script that can check entries against the notecard, by which I would then need a custom script done.

By what method did you attempt to re-add? If you tried editing the user file manually, using nano or some editor, - it is easy to introduce problems.

If it were me, I would start over, like this:
Be sure the bot is not running.
Rename the current .user file.
Start the bot with -m switch. i.e. : ./eggdrop -m eggdrop.conf
Say Hello to bot.
Set my password.
Log into bot.

Attempt to read the old .user file, using less filename.user
If I could garner any info from it, with which to re-add any users, I would only use partyline commands, for example:
.+user
.+host

In other words, from now on, I would only edit the .user file by using the built in partyline commands.

I hope this helps.

Hi, I have a problem going on that I don't know how to fix now. Something happened that caused my user entries in the user file to get merged with one another. I tried to fix that by shutting down eggdrop and attempting to re-add where the user entries are missing.