Is there a time remapping issue in After Effects CC?

I use time remapping for mouth animation among other things.  I have 15 mouths that I was using with the “toggle hold keyframe” selected and “preserve frame rate when nested” box checked.  I had been working for about 12 hours (always replaying each sentence after animating it.  Out of nowhere, I went back to check the last sentence I had just animated and it was all messed up -  replaced with random mouth shapes - not the ones I chose.  Then I went back to the beginning and it changed the first several hundred time remapping key frames to the same shape.  I’m freaking now because not only did I lose the work but how do I know that if I redo it it won’t just happen randomly again?  I’m using a mid 2010 Mac Pro with 96 GB of ram.  Thanks for any info.

Thank you very much for your responses!  Dave LaRonde, I'll be sure to give more spec info up front next time.  Mylenium and Rick - makes sense, I'll keep that in mind going forward.
Luckily, and I totally forgot this in the moment, I turned on Time Machine that morning after months of having it turned off for hard drive space reasons - and so I’m back in business! 
Thanks again Gents

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