I lost my flags

As you can see my flag counter is showing only a few visitors.   That's because I was working on a new addition to gadgets and somehow lost my flag counter.    When I tried to get it back it would not recognize my pertinent info (probably because it was inaccurate) so I had to re-register.  I have sent an email for help but I am afraid that my stats are gone forever.   I just loved seeing the number of countries who had visited my blog.  Now I am starting from scratch.......