A little update on my situation: I tried playing the game with my one of my saved games in the "save" folder, saved a new game, went to continue, and sure enough. the only present saved game is the one where I made a new game, not my previous saved game. This only solidifies that its a bug for me...
I tried it earlier today, but it didn't work. I dragged one of my saved games, dragged global file into the save file, run the game, and still nothing...I don't know if its a bug or there's something wrong, but I always drag ALL my saved games to the save folder, which always includes the global file. I don't know why it doesn't work anymore, can't speak for others, but please, help.