halo reach: armory/credits/rank

after playing offline for a wile i was finaly able to gain an internet connection. when i when to play halo reach i recived a notifacation saying i had to pay several credits to keep my armor cosomizations, i accepted. soon after accepting the notifacation i found that i had lost my rank, armor pices that i had puchased and now i can only make a max of 50 credits per mission

is this ment to happen? if not how can i fix it?

When you come on to Xbox LIVE, the game forces you to forfeit credits in case you modded them to a high rank offline and tried to take it online.

There is no way to reverse the change.

> When you come on to Xbox LIVE, the game forces you to forfeit credits in case you modded them to a high rank offline and tried to take it online.
>
> There is no way to reverse the change.

Sadly this is true. If you bought things with the use of offline credits, you must forfeit them when you sign on.