Check your PMs... you don't need to know much about SIMPE except where to find the Photo Studio in it.  That's pretty easy to use.

  I've PM'd you with a step-by-step walkthrough.

I was just thinking myself that I tend NOT to disconnect from the internet anymore when I play or pause antivirus while I want to play.  I used to do that regularly when TS2 was new.

  Not that XP alone can't find things to do which might cause you to pop out to the desktop frequently.

  Ya might think about those first two things before ya play next time and see if it makes it any smoother.

 It takes a while to recover?  I dunno have never made it that far since it was released.

This was off the waiting room and was a square room.  Trust me.  Tiny too.  Not for the claustrophobic.

I caught myself wondering at the vet's, in a tiny square-shaped room they have for you  to wait for the pet's examination, whether it was more a 2x2 or a 3x3 in build mode.

 :-|

I've been using the Photo Studio that comes with SimPE for the longest time.  Lately I have been wondering how to go about diversifying the frame colors.

  After reading the tutorial I had a new recolor including the frame done in a few minutes.

  Excellently clear.