Thanks for the help! And yeah; that is why I didn't want to risk messing w/ the persistent file; I know it is an important file, for many reasons.
Edit: Just did it; it worked! This will be super helpful for me for this VN and probably some other future ones I play since I didn't know you could do that.
I mostly just kept on overwriting old saves and stuff when I ran out of saves, but knowing I could do this too will help me out a lot. Thank you for a 2nd time.