I am not sure I am downloading the houses and using the Sims Installer pack correctly when it comes to the houses that are custom.  I know I get it to work for Sims, but when it comes to the houses I do not see them showing up in my neighborhoods.  If someone could direct me to a thread that gives instructions on how this process should work it would be FABULOUS!!!  The reason I know that I MUST be doing something wrong is I downloaded one and did the Sims Installer Pack and had to remove everything out of my download folder that was installed because it kept crashing the actual program when I tried to run it.  I don't know what it was about that particular house, but it did not sit well with Sims 2 or the way that I installed it.

I have downloaded S2pk clean installer to try to get new sims and it does not put the sims in the sims bin.  I can however see some of their clothes, but I can't get the bodies.  Here are the steps I am doing.  Please tell me if I am missing something.

1.  Downloading sim zip
2.  Unzipping file
3.  opening s2pk clean installer if the file did not automatically create one.
4.  Creating a new file from the unzipped files with s2pk
5.  Clicking on the new s2pk file to install
6.  manually taking the files from the original zip and placing them in the downloads folder.


Did I miss something or am I going about this in an entirely wrong way?