ok so I installed the new apartment life patch in sims website it fixed my problems
1. cellphones now work properly
2. school bus now picks up multiple kids ( i dunno if the patch fixed the problem i moved in a new family and removed the buggy one i think)
3. cooking skill is retained
4. cars can now be retained when moving to a new apartment

can anyone tell me if installing all the other expansion pack patches without uninstalling or reinstalling them will not cause a problem?

thanks my next step is to install apartment life patch wish me luck!

all of them?

can anyone help me? or maybe tell me ur having the same problem with me.
Here is a list of some apartment life bugs that I encountered:

1. cellphones lost in inventory once you answer a call it disappears

2. cooking skills resets back when you move a family into a new apartment

3. school bus does not pick up kids in apartment it only picks up a kid or a teen when they are an only child, it does not pick up both kid and a teen and yes they can walk but i like it much better when they get picked up.

4. whats up with an invalid apartment its really bugging me hope anybody can produce a hack where in apartments are available for rent even if it is an invalid apartment.

5. iv tried squinge mod pregnancy wear any outfit mod and my roommate/lover moved out without being kicked out. it also causes some jump bugs

6. is the patch at ea games for apartment life worth downloading?

I have been using inteen for bon voyage. There seems to be no trouble until I download some mod when my sim undergone birth control, woohoo option was changed to "unassign to smith" what happend? I tried deleting the installed mod and still the problem persisted what can I do?

I have uninstalled the whole sims and its EPs and tried installing it back i then slowly transfered one folder to another and tried the "make many" option in between them. when my whole downloads folder has been transfered the seems to be no problem. but then since I uninstalled the sims my family is gone so I copied EA games folder from my back up file at the external hard drive and paste it to my EA games my documents folder and the problem wrnt back. How can I get rid of the jump bug and still retain my existing family?

is there such a hack that sims can visit their families or friends or neighbors? I would love to see my sims visit other sims.

Thanks for helping me out. Same effect on both cc and maxis content. Before I even started installing global mod the problem already exist. I even tried deleting my appliances cc folder and house sets still no progress. How can I determine the root of the problem?

Please help me.. I have problems with the game since I have installed many custom content I was having problems I think its the JUMP BUG wherein I cannot  do the option "make many or make single plates meal" whenever I press the stove to make many. Here is the error:

Object "n003_User00831-antonia" 131, error reference to tree table entry that does not exist. the stack trace is saved in"c:/documents and settings/owner/my documents/ea games/ the sims 2/ logs/ Object Error_N003_t1103090.txt