On the Sims2.com there is a tutorial.

Go over to thesims2.com and get thier download oranizer, it might work for you. The others are better but, that one does tell you what each file is.

Yeah, it came with a few lots from a few sites so you may have several versions of it. I had seven of them- they all had to go. doesn't affect the lots it came with except all the phones disapear and you have to buy them again so watch for that in older downloaded lots.

Some other cc causes that too. The FT work outfits added to wardrobe did for me. I had those plus dress for work but nothing else. Removed FT work outfits mod and the closets are fine.

No, unles you change lot zoning to apartmentsublot but, I've had bldgs vanish from the neighborhood view and lost them doing that.

Look in your downloads folder for Phone line controller and delete it. It's an old, outdated mod that let you set the number of rings or turn the phone off.

CC is Custom Content, things you download like insiminator though I assure you that is not the problem if you have V2.9. Things in your Downloads folder. Remove them and that should fix the problem. (delete them or move the whole folder to your desktop.)

Sounds like a CC conflic, probably several of them. I have notice though that AL will let you place items where there is room for them but they wouldn't be useable by a sim then they vanish when you go back to live mode.

Place the cars before you move sims in, the sims will be able to change owner so that they own the cars and the cars will work just as if you bought them after moving in.

Just the way the game works, not a big deal.

I don't run any of those except Intenn and, as far as I'm concerned it's a no go with AL; too many problems from making shadow sims to not allowing some of the new items to show in the catalog to causing the game to crash.

Can the drive play movies? If not then it is a CD drive not a DVD drive.

Sometimes it's on page 2 or three of the pie menu.

Its under decorative/Misc page 4 or 5 if you don't have much CC I think. There are two, one with and one without a mirror. They have to be above sinks to allow sims to brush thier teeth and was thier faces.

Look in mydocuments/ea games/the sims 2/ config for user startup cheats. It's a text file and it seems AL doesn't like boolprop cheats in there. I had the roomate problem and crashes until I removed startup boolprops. The cheats work if you activate them in game but, for some reason they cause problems if you load with them on.