Ok, i've had this sort of problem before, where I take a world1, odf, msh, etc. of a world i have made the that has stuff in it (in this case objects, and 14 cps in the eli layer), and paste it over the another world of the same three-letter code and munge, and when it munges, for some reason it still reads the old default cps from the world i pasted over as well as my new cps, and of course, there can only be a max of 16 cps, so it crashes. If i lower the cp count, the default cps show up. What can I do to get rid of these old default cps, when they are not in zeroedit?

Hunt for them in your .wld and .lyr files. Both of em should open in Notepad.

weren't there. I figured out tho why this happenned, is that when i replaced everything it wrote over the previous lyr file. what i should have done was take the old world1 folder out and then put the new one in.