Thanks for that second link.  I love it.

Simple solution, guys.  Do what I did... send them all to Pescado.

 
Totally wonderful!  Thank you so much.  I love your mods, and this will be a favorite of mine.

Oh my goodness... EA about to abandon Sims 3 already?  I hadn't heard about that.  Where did you read that? 

Thanks, Engram.  It's great to know it is working for you... there's still hope for mine, then. ha ha.
I will do the hacks and mods.  That will simplify it to start with.
Thanks again.

Update:  Well, I found the culprit, finally.
It was alfixes from MATY.  I was surprised by that.

Thank you, Joy.

I've noticed that my sims can't get Valentines anymore like they used to from the dates they go on.

I have no idea which EP 'broke' this, but I assume EA did it.

If anyone has an answer on how to fix this, please let me know.
(I have all EPs and SPs except the Holiday/Christmas one.)

Same here, Paden.  That'll be the day I buy into that kind of crud.

Thank you, Engram!  For me, it was the constant sound that drove me nuts.

LOL.  This isn't going to work for me.  I couldn't get past question one, because I would do two things, sulk a bit, then do my resume.  Can't win, I guess.

Make a folder called, for example, MATY.
Then put every folder you made earlier containing hacks from that site into that main folder.

hrm... yep, subfolders.  I have those.  You do not want to see that mess.  But, they are all foldered, yeppers!  *hides face in shame*

Wow.  I had no idea they were bad.  *sigh*  I like them, too, but away they will have to go.

No, it's been behaving just fine.  The only thing that happened is neighbourhood story albums disappeared after I deleted Veronaville.... but I assume that's entirely unrelated.

Oh, no!  I've got quite a few foods as CC.  What can they do to the game?  Now I'm worried my 'hoods will go splat.  *insert worry beads macro*