Or, you could just bind the old fleet to a different number and swap bindings around until the fleets are set to your preferred bindings.  Not hard, and much cheaper than scuttling a whole fleet.

WOW Emperorjarin check your facts before posting please swapping bindings just adds more bindings to the fleet REALLY????

Umm..  You can rebind over top of another fleet/object...  It's entirely possible.  I don't see what your problem is.

translates to:

My brain is bugged. i can't bind shit

P.s

What constitutes as a brain bug?

1. Chemical Imbalance?
2. Signs of a retard?

Well, you did kind of go off on Emperor and Ghost, so I'm assuming that's why he did that. 

But anyways, yeah, if you bind fleet A to 1 and then accidentally bind fleet B to fleet 1 later, in the process you would have unbound fleet A from 1.  I think if you accidentally were to to ctrl+shift+1 you would actually add the ships to the hotkey instead of replacing the current one which may be your problem.  If you accidentally do this, just select a random ship in the fleet and ctrl+1 it.  That would wipe the fleet of anything else aside from that ship.  Then, just select the fleet you intend to be on that hotkey and ctrl+1 it.

Thanks Volt I was able to figure it out with your help, I was trying to fix the fleet as a whole all at once which does not work. The single ship did the trick however I must say I do not care for the current functionality I would prefer that it worked the way of previous rts's I have used where Ctrl overwrites everything you have selected at the point of hitting the combo. +1 Sir