Okay everyone It's doing it again, help pleaseeeee!

Okay everyone who was so great at trying to help me, I think I found a solution to my problem. I log off and created a new screen for just my sims and nothing else, no music downloads, no antivirus, no internet, just the sims and it comes on everytime, when I want to look at other things, I log off and go back to the owner screen and everything is fine, so thanks everyone so much, hopefully this will work.

Okay first things first, what is a read diode and my drivers are somewhat new, I brought new ones in 2005, so could they still be the problem, because it's still doing the same thing, loading on some days and others not.HELP me please.

No I am not playing on a mac, just a regular pc.

Okay so I manually uninstalled the pets and seasons and deleted some of my custom content and now the game works great, so thank you all.

I just deleted the folder, so I guess I will uninstall the pets fully and reinstall and add the patch and then add the seasons. can anyone tell me if the patch is a good idea or not.

Okay I have done everything besides restarting the whole sims 2 and expans. and I am still having the same problem,  and yes I restored my computer to an earlier time and it still keeps doing it. I would love not to restart the downloading process over, any other ideas please.

I would truely love more clothing with the new high heel sexy feet for all of your lovely body shape ladies, exspecially the pin-up shape, since I do not know how to convert the clothes with the sexy shoe mesh my self.

Anyone please help....

Okay, I did everything you guys suggested, still the game does not start everytime. I deleted the Sims 2 Pets from my computer/programs, then deleted it in the recycle bin, put the Pets disk 1 and redownloaded it all over again, just by doing the above the game started and worked for a couple of days. Then again a couple of days later the same thing, the game will not start. So I repeated my same steps again and the game starts. Does anyone know why this keeps happening, has this happen to anyone else, and how did you fix it. I would love for my game to be working great before I buy a new expansion pack(seasons).

I love all of your houses, but where did you get the furniture from, I realllllllllly want the bunk beds.

More pleaseeeee!

Okay I have done everything you guys suggested and still nothing works, do you guys think that it could just be my disk or what pleaseeeeeee help I want to play so bad.

I tried many times to restart and nothing works, you said to try to delete the groups.cache file,I don't have that folder I have something called the HTTP Cache folder. So should I delete that and try again.

I have been playing my sims 2 pets for about a month, then yesturday I tried to play and it won't even come on. The white screen pops up that says the sims 2 pets and that's it, it never goes to the EA GAMES screen or the part when all of the sims are doing various things, my drives are fine, I put other things in and they work fine. I have a Radeon 9200 graphic card and more then enough ram to run the game fine, I have all of the big expan. packs, no glamour life, family fun, or christmas pack just the uni, nightlife, ofb, and pets.I called EA they were no help at all, I just want to know if I can just take the download folder out and buy another pets disk and replace my downloads folder with all my great hairs and clothes and sims, without reininstalling the game,because I justttttttt don't want to go through all of that. Or should I take my downloads out and save it some where else and reinstall all over again with a new pets disk.