Wonderful to hear, I'll await progress and i hope you can get it working right cause i used that one the most.

tl;dr will the light computer be updated as well? (   MQ_SAobj132_lightcomputer_v6.1_BON_VOYAGE.zip)

I had around 18gb before i cleaned my dir, down to 12.5gb ATM (see pic). Took too long to load and then it was so painful when it crashed and had to load again. I'm thinking the freetime crashes are just a bug that ea will fix in time. I've googled it and seen alot of the same thing from different people around the net. I myself have the problem on 3 different computers with and without CC and i even did a clean install of windows on one and that didnt fix the problem and all the sims 2 installs have every expansion and stuffpack. All have nvidia video cards in them as well so that could be it too as it used to happen with bon voyage till nvidia released new drivers that stopped the crashing and everything was fine till now. Just have to wait and see what the patch fixes i guess?