cannot view what i have drawn or files i have already drawn

I have gone through all of the posts and recommendations throughout the blog, I have renamed files, reloaded profile, reloaded Draftsight, completely wiped it from my computers, and reloaded, updated drivers (which were already up to date), back dated drivers, deleted profile file, GCSETTINGS.....etc. I normally use AutoCAD or Gibbs, but was introduced unto this by a friend and gave it a try. when it worked, I loved it. I have this installed on my laptop running windows 7 Pro, laptop running XP Pro, and was about to put it on my home computer running Windows 8 (have not tried this one yet, due to the failure on my laptops) , both my laptops, I have done all that is mentioned throughout these forums and still cannot see what I am creating. no matter what attributes I give the objects/lines and no matter what I assign to the layers, I cannot see my drawings, only when I mouse over can I select the objects but never see them. Is there a fix out for this?