A while ago I stupidly tried to save space in my Amory Inventory by moving items to a Retainer. I moved some items that were already equipped on my characters. When next I logged in and tried to access them I was told that there were items missing and could not retrieve the characters. With the help of the people on this forum I got them back (BLM & SMN). I noticed that I wasn't accumulating experience points. I also notices that the narrative mentioned getting Thaumaturge experience points as well as whichever the beginning class was for the Summoner. I tried to re-create those characters but only succeeded in overwriting my Thaumaturge. I still have the Arcanist on Conjurer I believe but perhaps they didn't come through the restoration too well. This is the only thing I can think of that might be causing my problem.
Thanks again