I'm having major issues with custom content and using the clean installer.  I just got a new computer, and I just installed all EPs.  However, I've been having this issue since before the new computer and prior to having all the EP's so I wasnt' sure what the cause of the problem was.

I am pretty anal about the meshes, and I usually manage to confirm that I have the meshes using Delphys...and delete those that I don't have meshes for...

This weekend I installed all the games on my new computer and when I couldn't locate the clean installer, I tried the Maxis installer.  Well, I didn't really think twice about how beautiful my downloaded stuff suddenly looked until I decided to download clean installer and install more (the Maxis one is really slow for me).  Well, suddenly all the stuff was messed up.  Things were actually CHANGING in my game.  Floors disappeared, weird Korean instruments were hanging in midair....

Have others been having issues like this?  Or is something else causing all the weird things to happen?  Because it seriously seems like clean installer just doesn't download everything or something.  New stuff is really messed up if it's not maxis content and, like I said, things have even started missing in game where they had previously been.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  I am at work, but can provide pics when I get home if needed.

I just want things to be pretty, I tell ya.  And I've been trying to see if I can find this issue and I've read the wiki and those aren't issues that I'm having, really.  Things aren't blue.  My custom content is turned on...I have it in all the correct folders....:sad4:

I'm trying to create sims2packs of my people but I want their hairstyles, clothes and meshes and all their custom content to come with them.  I don't want to share these,  I just want to re-install them after I remove most of the cc in my downloads folder (that I stupidly downloaded all willy nilly like) so game runs faster.

So I figured if I left all the cc in, created sims2packs of my sims, then removed the gazillions of ridiculous cc, that I could simply install my sims2packs back and have only the cc I WANT to have so they look exactly as I made them. But when I do that, I get nothing, no hair - no tops of heads - even.  They are wearing the default clothes and all that.  And when I look at cleaninstaller, it doesn't list any cc, it just has one file.  The main one.

I have the following EPS:
nightlife, pets, bon voyage, freetime (but will get the rest by next week)

I'm doing it in bodyshop.  Could I be doing wrong?  Do I not have right EP's?  I really want to clean out my cc.

Help/information/guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

(and I'm new nice to meetcha)

Hi  I'm totally new to this world.  I just purchased Sims2 a week and a half ago.  I got Double Deluxe.  I ADORE IT.  I've been playing and having a ball, however, I have some things I'd like to ask some questions about.

1.  Is there a way to invite friends over but then you can make them actually LEAVE at a decent hour?  
I want my Sims to hang with their best friends for the evening but then My Sims go to bed, the best friend spends the evening cooking themselves dinner, taking showers, watching tv, and I can't find a command that tells them to go home!  Am I missing it?

2.  Camera tilt.  
I hate the game camera/view or whatever it's called.  I can't get it to work so that even if I wanted to make a story with pics, it would look decent.  Is there a mod some where that will allow me better control over it?  I am not wanting to make a video at this time.  Maybe just get pics of them doing stuff.  I really wanted a wedding pic but I let that opportunity pass since I'm slow as molasses in winter.  Um, basically I can't angle my view with any precision and it's driving me insane.  

3.  Fights.
Oh my freaking Goodness.  This is driving me nuts.  I have two Sims who DETEST each other.  They cannot be in the same lot without punching and beating the hell out of each other.  I don't mind them hating each other, I can work with that, but they friggin' started a fight at the wedding.  My first sims wedding.  And it caused such a ruckus that I missed the photo op (um, maybe, I am still working with the camera thingy)  yes, I have these guys on free range because I like to see what they do to change my story.

4. Building Walls but I can't add doors or windows.
I have been trying to add on to the little starter home because my little sims family is going to have a baby (probably tonight) and I wanted the house ready.  Well, I added to the second story and now I can't put doors or windows in.  Says I have to have them centered on a tile.  But there is no way to do what they want me to do that I can see.  Did I build them wrong?  Is there some sort of a trick to this?  I can't seem to add doors or windows to anything.  It's driving me nuts as well.

5. Which new EP's should I purchase next?
I have Nightlight, Celebrations! and IKEA.  Now?  I want to get ALL EP's and packs, but not all at once (it's expensive!).  So I want to buy 2-3 tonight and I wanted to know which packs I should get and in which order you suggest.  My first thought is that I really want Pets, Open for Business and either Seasons or Bon Voyage but should I get them in a different order?  
Also, where do you suggest I buy them so I can download them online?  I can also be PM'd with info if people don't want to promote stores in the forum.

I believe those are all my questions for now.

Thank you!