Joy, have you actually heard from him or one of his roommates? 

The last I'd heard was when the "alleged sister claimed he was dead" drama happened.  At that point, people said he was very ill and I half assumed that he'd managed to die without drama in the intervening years.

I've been sending good thoughts without ever finding out if they had any effect!

BlooM doesn't quite get that not everyone likes cameltoe and visible nipples.  It's not just a guy thing; Warlokk would make separate meshes....

It seems to be an EA problem, not a hack or hack conflict problem.  Patches don't fix it, Pescado's business fixes don't fix it, nothing fixes it.  In the simbology thread, we've got some ideas, but no one's had time to dig into it.

Two warnings: Make a back up first and do not save any lots with missing CC while doing the divide and conquer.

Two tutorials that should answer all your questions:

Downloading_for_Fracking_Idiots
The Last Ever 'How Do I Install Downloads?' Tutorial

30 second rule, if you grab them within 30 seconds, they're still good cupcakes!
< snags more than her share of the squashed cupcakes >

Heroes of Might and Magic IV

Don't think so.  You can use the magic Kibble to keep him an adult or to keep him alive as an elder, but you have to do it before age up or death.

Heroes of Might and Magic IV

The trick is to aim the person so the wagon runs over them...

I'm sure the rest of us will enjoy them!

Yes, you can.  I've been told you have to create your new shopping district first, then delete the old one.

Mediafire added a checker for illegal copyrighted downloads, and it seems to have overachieved; many Sim creators have lost files and sometimes their whole accounts!  Hair files seem to attract the most attention and trouble.

I got a kid back by having her adult sister make the adoption call, then fixed the relationships with SimPE. 

They dropped her grades from A+ to C too.  Barely got her back to A+ before she became a teen!

HCDU is available from SimWardrobe http://www.simwardrobe.com under Programs.

I have the opposite view -- Once you've resolved as many hack conflicts as possible with your game functioning the way you want, it's easy to recognize new conflicts and just resolve those.