Mark, I PMed you! Ali is helping me get the editing and sorting to work. I will do some more cleaning and fixing this weekend.

Mark, as always, I am indebted to you for your continued support. I have been MIA for far too long. I installed AL around the last time I wrote here and the game kept crashing so I abandoned it for RL. Now I am back, determined to make it work and update this thread and incorporate all of your amazing work. Happy Holidays! Thanks again!

UPDATE: I have started cleaning the first post. I am having problems with the editing accepting the changes. I don't know if I am going to be able to add your finds. I'll let you know.

Mark, as always, thank you for being so helpful to all of us. I have been so MIA this past two weeks. I need to have RL calm down and get to work here!

Mark, thank God you are here. I have been so busy lately. This thread needs a complete overhaul and I am waiting for the time to do it. Always, thanks for your invaluable help!

THX AC, I will make the correction and add finds to the forst post this weekend. I have been intolerably busy but hopefully things in RL will begin to calm down.

I lost my father on September 13th. He had been battling Hodgkins for the past few years. Also, I am back in school and that has been selfishly dominating so much of my time as well.

I have to fix so much in the first thread!

Mamasimk, endless thanks for these wonderful additions for our BEARS! We love them!

I would find my cell phone and call the GRIM REAPER immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Winema, so yummy. Thanks!

This is fantastic. I love the outfit. Now all we need are some chaps and then we can get our Big Bear on a motorcycle and VAROOM (oh, then he needs some leather jackets....)

Sadie, beloved, I just found another FIX by Lord Darcy over at MTS2! I am also adding the link to the first post.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=299597

"...good grief, they never learn, do they?"

No, they obvious don't because they obviously don't care as long as they have a captive buying public. It will never happen but just imagine if the Simmers of the world united and boycotted a TS2 EP or stuff pack on principle. It's doubtful, but maybe then EAxis would get the idea that they should pay more attention to the quality of work they offer their public. WHATEVAH!!!!!!!

It's amazing; I haven't even begun to update TJ, Eric, MATY et al. I am too busy finding out what the new EP has broken first!!!!

SSSSH! Don't ask don't tell!

I have never added the second PATCH because I am so unfamiliar and scared of the Secur-ROM crap. I am still not sure if I will add AL to my game. It really does nothing for me. The Murphy Bed is cute and so is the closet but Secor-ROM and banal game creation limits my interest!

Thanks for the heads up on SR.

PS: Since the "good" clothing designs are being distributed for those of us hesitent in wasting money on EP8. So, who knows? Maybe someone will make a Murphy Bed!!!!!!! I know Marvine already has spiral stairs for us.

Here is a link to a Site that has a Prima Guide for AL EP 8 preview that you can D/L:

http://www.unlimitedsims.com/

Fabu! Thank you (now, please, more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

If you are in a hurry for your Sims to make bigger items you can use Carrigon's Big Badge of Badges (All EP's up to FreeTime Badge Cheat):

http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=2837

Isn't it odd that our own Beta testers seem more into making the game more playable than the doufuses that EA employs to weed out the potential problems with new EPs and stuff packs?

The spamming of NPCs never should have existed in BV; the flummoxing of appliances never should have been compromised in K&B and IKEA. IKEA is especially an insult to our intelligence. Whatever existed in K&B should have been identified and fixed before the latest stuff pack was released. Lord Darcy made it very plain that this problem existed with K&B.

TwoJeffs had a fix for a critical error in FreeTime after that EP was released. How could EA not know that there was the problem with potentially reporting bogus aspirations for Sims with a secondary aspiration set?

And then there is the issue of securom.............