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As far as avoiding you IFR flightplan being cancelled, here's what you do:

When you leave your departure airport, you get handed off from the tower as soon as you leave their airspace. At that point, don't change frequency. Wait until you're pretty much near to, or at, your desired cruise altitude and then accept the handoff.

Whilst not terribly realistic, it does cure all the problems of lost IFR plans.

  I have had this happen to me several times in different aircraft and have read a lot of postings here of other people having this problem, and even though there have been a lot of ideas as to what the problem may be, it still happens from time to time and makes no sense, regardless of what anyone suggests may be the cause of the problem, I thinks it's a glitch.
  You will read in part nine of my misadventures which I am going to prepare for publishing tonight, I once again had this problem occur, then after taking off again from another airport with the same plane, the problem didn't occur again. What's up with that?
I fly using the same procedure each time, so I will not believe that it is related to pilot error.
Tipster, I like your suggestion about waiting until achieving cruise altitude before changing frequencys, I never thought of that, but as much as I have flown, and having only had the problem in question occur a few times, I guess I never considered something like that to be necessary. I do hate losing the IFR contact though.

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Well the panel itself is, as of today, started from scratch.

That might seem like bad news, but it isn't. The reason is that I'm having to re-do the bitmaps as I've finally got the views engine working! (Major "YAY" from me! )

I don't know if everyone is going to like the way this works, but I love it LOL.

Brief description:

For those of you that had FLY!, you've seen it already - sort of. It differs in that there's no animated scrolling of the view, but uses the same method for changing views, i.e. when the mouse is located at the top/bottom/left/right of the current view, an arrow appears and you click it to change view. The views themselves are not full screen changes though in most cases. For example, clicking the up arrow whilst in normal front mode, moves the view so that the view out of the windshield occupies the bottom half of the screen whilst the full overhead panel (as opposed to the partial on display in the main screen) occupies the top view.

Other advantages to this system are the ability to open the cabin and other doors (whether modelled in the aircraft or not) from the inside using a handle/switch on the door. Obviously if the plane doesn't have a working exit modelled this view is only available from the inside.
The possibilities with this are endless.

Work progresses...

well, mixture will play a big role in this, if you DONT use automixture (in the realism settings) then press CTRL+F2 a few times..although boeings dont have a mixture knob, it will recognise high mixture from the previous craft, and it will have to high mixture..so turn it down a bit and you should be flying..sorry if i sound complicating, but im a bit tired..hope it helps anyway

................................... .......i never thought of that  lol good thinking!