So stumped.

When I try to set up an event for an old man to finally move out of the way once you have a specific item with you, he dissapears if I leave the map to get that item and come back with it. I want to talk to the old man, Hear him tell me what he wants, then i want to be able to leave the map, open a chest to find the item he wants, then go back to the old man with the item. but upon using the door to the map hes just gone. If i dont loot the chest he doesnt dissapear. still i dont know what to do.

It would help if you showed screenshots of your event :) Sounds like you may have turned on a switch and forgotten to set an event graphic.

I think you've gotten your switch logic wrong - but to solve that, we need to see where you used which switches - please provide screenshots of all event pages of all events in this problem.

Include the WHOLE event window, not just the list of commands, because the issue will be with the conditions and graphic.