Not sure why you think your staked coins should be in your wallet when you sent (spent) them.
-tb-
My wallet shows 5 transactions of sending 500 coins back to the primary wallet, and 2 more that say "conflicted", as it appears that it tried to send coins that were already sent.
So, by sending coins to myself (within the same wallet), my staked coins just go away? is that what you are saying?
I copied my wallet.dat file and renamed the folder. I ran the wallet again and it re-synced and is now showing all of my coins!
However, it is only showing 1 active connection to the Viral network now (before I was getting 16-18).
Is there a way to get more connections?
Go to the block explorer and get the nodes. Make a Viral.conf file and add the nodes, this will increase the # of nodes. I too had 1 connection under windows 7. Added nodes and have like 16+.