It's the portrait regeneration in live mode she's talking about.  Every time they shower or dress, whatever.  Started happening with AL, I think.

Delete your groups.cache file.

That's what adblock is for.

No, it's not true.  Certain files crash because they're broken, not because of the booty itself, and they're fixed as soon as they can be.  DO NOT SUPPORT THE EVIL BASTARDS OF TSR!

Yep.  Thanks for changing it.

Can I have my custom title removed now, please?

I've had that happen in random apartments, and I can't figure out why either...I move them out and back in and it seems to fix it.  Other than that, I haven't paid *too* much attention to it.

There's not really any better way to delete items while viewing.  You can use the Wardrobe Wrangler by DJS Sims, but it won't show the item as well as BodyShop will.  And there's no way to stop it from going back to the beginning of the catalog.

Good luck with doing this, I just spent 3 days deleting bodyshop items I didn't want anymore.

It'd crash on any aquarium if you're using a water hack that crashes the large aquarium.  Delete hack.

I did some research too, and I found out that you can only call the landlord to repair items, and it should be in the Service menu.  You can't call a landlord to chat or anything else, but you can email them.  If it's not there for you, then I'd call a bug or a hack/CC conflict (start with phone items first).

As for the decorating, if you want to redecorate common areas, you need to do that when there are no Sims living on the lot.  Do whatever you want to all the common areas, and if you use the cheats, "boolProp aptBaseLotSpecificToolsDisabled false" and "boolProp aptSubLotSpecificToolsDisabled false" to enable all of the build/buy categories.  You can also redecorate the individual apartments here too, if you want.

The reason you can't do either the common areas or other apartments when you have Sims living on the lot is because it will only save that information while you're playing that particular family.  So say you place a merry-go-round outside, and then you exit the lot and re-enter to play a new family.  The merry-go-round will be gone, because it will only be there for that one particular family.  I tend to go in beforehand and place everything I'll want on the lot first, and redecorate to my taste.

You can build and redecorate a playable Sims house, as long as you enter the cheats above first.

Erm no?  It'll update automatically. 

Mansion & Garden is newer than Apartment Life, and it's treated as a Mini-EP by the game, so you have to use that disk to run the game.  But I'm not sure what you mean about separate folders?

Not legally.

It really sucks when someone sends you a PM asking you a question, and then you can't even reply to them

I was just saying that SMF does have the ability, contrary to your supposition that maybe it doesn't, which would mean it needs to be enabled.  As you are staff and I am not, you would be the person to get that sorted out if it was a feature you wanted.  So get your knickers out of a twist.