Exactly how to I download and install a patch from the Sims 2 site?

Thanks, both of you. I'll try both of those.

I don't know if my game is patched. I bought it only a few months before Sims 3 came out and I have all the expansion packs and I had installed them in order when I had to reinstall them after my comp was wiped last year.

And the only mods I have are the same sex marriage and pregnancy for all, which I have downloaded for the latest expansion pack I have.

I made a post about this over on the LJ comm and never got a reply so I thought I'd make a post here. Last night while playing, I realized that the years for some of my College age sims were off, which isn't that big a deal because I can just finish each one off before moving the couples in together elsewhere.

However, I then realized that one of my sims who had recently graduated when I was playing two weeks ago now shows that he is a junior and shows his major in the jobs spot even tho he has a job and he has memories of graduating and a diploma. Also where it shows that he's a junior, it's been stuck at 64 hours till final no matter how many days pass.

Help?