TWO problems! ~house hacks?

[YHsims2003]

hello everyone!
There are two major problems that are bugging the crap out of me!

Problem #1: There are some sims that cant go to work. It is time to either get into their carpool or drive to work, but once the bubble come up on the top left hand corner it just dissapears as if i cancled it or something. i try getting them into the cars but never works!

Problem #2: Almost all of my sims can't seem to call their friends anymore. They can't call family members either. Once they pick up their phones, the directory shows no one or just random NPCs. The kids pick up the phone and it says "i dont know anyone" but they do!! argh.

if anyone has similar problems or knows how to fix this, i would greatly appreciate it! i want to start playing again once i fix these. *sigh*

[ancienthighway]

Sounds like the symptoms of an outdated Inteenimater.  Take it out of your game and it should be back to normal.

[YHsims2003]

hmm, but i dont have an Inteenimater or insimenator.
do i have to have some sort of hack or mod for this to happen?

[caffeinated.joy]

Do you have any hacks/mods? If you've downloaded any houses or lots, you may have. Sometimes they package up with lots (unbeknownst to the house/lot creator). What I would do is pull out your downloads and see if the problem persists. If not, you have something in your cc creating the conflict.

[YHsims2003]

*gasp* HOUSES?! yes, i am a victim of lots and lots of house downloads.
wow, they might be the problem, never thought of it! Thanks Joy and ancienthighway!
But now...
how do you get rid of house hacks??

[EKozski]

Run the Download Orgainizer or SimPe

anything in red shows up as a hack

[ancienthighway]

With hacks picked up from downloaded houses, or any other content for that matter, the name will be a 32 character hexadecimal name.  Numbers and the letters a-f.  Within clean installer, if you scan the Downloads directory plus subfolders, then sort it by Type, you can easily find the bad hacks by the 32 character name and NO type.  Those you will want to delete right away. (One of them could be the Inteenimater that I mentioned earlier or it could be any number of outdated hacks that you can't identify.)

[lewisb40]

It could be a outdated mailbox object in the download.  I had those problems when I downloaded a lot with a mailbox in the package. I watch out for them now, cause the mailbox might be for an older EP and don't work for your newer ones.

You can't delete it from the game, cause it will delete all your mailboxes. You can't find it in the download folder cause it has a different name there and I couldn't find it. The only way I got rid of it was thru Sims 2 Clean Installer. It is not in red so you have to search the packages, find it and delete it from your game.  

Hope that helps.

[YHsims2003]

wow thank you everyone!!
these problems will be gone in no time! thanks again!