??EVENT RESETTING/ TITLE SCREEN??

(RPG Maker XP)
First, which is my biggest problem at the moment, is Event Resetting. I may have rigged my events wrong, but heres what I do. I set the 'starter' event where I want your character to see it. When you talk to it, say you get a quest. To make the NPC say something else and not give the quest all over again, I just have it switch places with an identical Event. These 'switcher' Events are usually on an island somewhere where they can't escape or be seen by the player. So thats how the game progresses, by Events either erasing or trading places with another one. So thats how my game is currently set up. But there is one problem. Say you do an entire set of quests, or you may be in the middle of one, and you decide to go inside a shop or something, which of course teleports you to a different map. Thats all fine and dandy, you buy your crap and then go on your merry way. But once you get back outside, all of the Events have reset and you're back at square one. How do I keep this from happening? I would love to make the game sort of an open world sandbox style. But I can't do this if every time the hero leaves a map and comes back everything is the way it was the very first time you saw it!
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Second, is a Title Screen. I don't really need to change the actual part that says like New Game, Continue, or Exit, I want like a cinematic intro. Something that has a little scene and the title of my game with a cool font and animation. But first things first. I need help with the above problem before this.