I was looking in the game explorer, and It shows me 4-0 as white in the ruy, this is not true however, b/c I have found at least one game I lost.  Specifically from the chess.com 1st theme ruy lopez tourney.

You have to choose between games you play as white and games you play as black, does that make a difference?  I've also noticed some lag time between when they finish and when they show up in my game archive.

Yes, I have myself selected, and the other 4 games from that tournament are in there.  Also, I noticed this looking at the masters games.

Vienna Game

1. e4  e5
2. nc3  ...

When I click on Game Explorer I get the following message:

"The player was not found: CastleFirstLuke." It is only my second day as a member - could this be the issue? I've played several Live games so far.

I look forward to some insight...

Live games don't show up on game explorer, only the online correspondence games.

the ruy lopez game I'm missing was not a live game

my response was to CastleFirstLuke

I'm not sure what the bug in the explorer is.  I checked just now and the second to last game I completed is in the archive.  Is the ruy lopez game you're looking for when you were white or black?  If it was a game when you were black, did you select not only "my chess games" but also toggle the button to indicate you were black in the game?  I don't have the highest level of membership so I can't look through your games myself.

Here's the link  from the explorer page(image below), for anyone who does have access to the games.

http://www.chess.com/explorer/index.html?id=28&ply=5&black=0&db=3&player=P_U_N

here's the link to the game I lost as white in the ruy.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=10537030

move	games	white wins / draw / black wins
3...Bd6	1	P_U_N - dhirajsharma2008 (2008)
3...d6	1	P_U_N - ceefa (2008)
3...Nd4	1	P_U_N - nurik100 (2008)
3...Nf6	1	P_U_N - Gwynlian (2008)

I'm not sure, the only thought I have is that maybe the game explorer has a hard time processing the games from thematic tournaments, when there is a preset starting position down some opening line.

maybe so, I guess 4 out of 5 isn't bad

actually if I total up the numbers from game explorer - and compare with the total  number of games unders the stats section, I'm short 12 games (figureing in the games in process as part of the total number of games.)