It seems that about five pair of of maxis base game glasses are showing up as black, semi-transparent, square earrings.  I assume those are UV maps, but I dont' know.  Now, I know enough to know that this means there's a conflict with something I've downloaded, or something has corrupted.  What I can't figure out is what that might be.

I've had Dr. Pixel's earring mesh, simchic's, and a few others for quite a bit now and nothing new is connecting with me.  Actually, I first noticed this problem after I downloaded a self-sim for a contest on the sister site.  Said self-sim dislayed with these earring placeholders instead of glasses.  That was back in October or November.  I didn't really worry about it, because I don't often go that far into glasses to get at maxis crap.  But, now when I go to that particular page in CAS, the game crashes.  It doesn't crash in bodyshop of course.

Everything custom seems to display correctly and I've gotten rid of duplicate/empty packages using Clean Installer.  Any suggestions?  Or should I just remove all custom contest pertaining to accessories and try the one at a time method(something I have been studiously trying to avoid.)  I have all expansions except holidays stuff, and the problem was extant before Pets and Season.

Sam just wasn't quite worthy.  So she had to go bye bye.