Dvd's hold far more information than cd's do that's why they've moved on to them.

When you download sims it puts them and the custom content into the file called 'people sims'. I forget the name of the folder for downloaded lots but make sure you don't have any hacks and things in some of those folders.

carrigon has a door hack that will allow you to move into a furnished apartment.

http://www.sims2workshop.com/viewtopic.php?t=2900

Hopefully this link will go to it.

it's possible that something is conflicting with them, try removing your downloads folder (to the desktop or somewhere) and playing the game to see if they come back.

a few people have complained of sims disappearing into their appartments early. I'm wondering if it's a problem with the game that will hopefully be fixed with the patch (if the patch is trustworthy). I had trouble with my guests from another apartment not staying for a wedding so I made them selectable (with insim) and they stayed even after I'd made them unselectable agian. (They were still there after my sims came back from their honeymoon to the island)

If you're still not sure, back up your game by copying your sims 2 folder in EA to desktop or somewhere and try them. If you game doesn't work they could be the problem.

thanks for that link, I had the same problem and had forgotten about that hack

the mysterious shelving door book case is not avaliable in apartment lots but I'm told that if you enter both,

boolprop aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled false
boolprop aptBaseLotSpecificToolsDisabled false

several times it will work.

Edit note: This seems to allow you to build (Still tricky though) but the book case doesn't seem to come up in apt. Don't know how to get the bookcase door.

the witches names probably vary from game to game but they should all have ... the good witch or ... the evil witch (something like that) on the end of their name, also they have costumes to distinguish them when you see them. You have to go to a comunity lot to and wait for them to come (you might not be able to summon a witch if he/'she hasn't been created yet)

As for meeting a good witch - I haven't acutally tried being shown path of dark and being good but I don't see why you couldn't because both good and bad have the option to study light or dark pathes from their books and it depends on which spells you cast i think.

You could always try it and not save if you don't like the result.

have you clicked 'enable custom content' when you first loaded the game? Try going into your options menu (...) and click on the 'show custom content at start up' thing (can't remember what it's called off the top of my head) and enable the custom content - once you've done this you have to quit and reload and your cc should be back.

Hope that works

you could try opening it up in windows explorer and see if can access the auto run file manually. If that doesn't work, contact the shop you bought it from and see if you can exchange it

you might have to study for the spell to work, has she started from the begining in her abilities?

That's cool, I wanted something like that, thanks

sorry I couldn't help. I always use the insimenatior's career adjuster to get them jobs anyway.

have you tried a different type of computer?