thanks for your suggestion ancienthighway. unfortunately, that didnt work either. as for my cc...i actually still have all the zip files i downloaded in another folder so i can always reinstall them. thanks though ) i'm just hoping i dont have to reinstall the game. theres alot of time and effort in there!!

It didn't work (

Thanks! I'll have to try that tonight when I get home ) I'll let ya know if it didn't work...lol

where do i find groups.cache? im not sure what that is...

I got something of a problem here and I was hoping someone might have a solution OTHER than reinstalling the game. I have TS2 & Nightlife installed. I just reinstalled the a couple weeks ago. Everything has been working perfect up until a couple days ago. I began downloading some new objects, skins, etc. and you know how that can go right?? Before I knew it I had downloaded a few hundred items! Anyway...i installed them all into the downloads folder, tried to start up the game and it keeps getting stuck then crashing when it hits the message "Replacing wheel bearings". My first thought is one of the new downloads is corrupt, so I began the troubleshooting process of figuring out which dl is causing the problem. With a couple thousand dls in the folder, it became a daunting task, so I deleted all the custom content...confident that would solve the problem. NOPE! I now have no custom content in the dl folder and it still freezes and crashed at the same spot. Please help! I really really dont wanna have to reinstall again. If I do have to reinstall...then maybe someone can tell me a way to backup my existing lots and reinsert them in the game after its reinstalled. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME :sad4: Thanks!