Ummmm, errrr....
Tell you what, I'll let you know after I restart the game

sheesh



Alright....we have achieved game.....wow..... first time in a month that all as worked the way it's supposed to...

Thanks guys..

OK, now I'm really confused.....sheesh

Re-installed everything.... got in the game...custom hood loaded, custom lots loaded... move to cas  custom sims, hair, makeup, clothes...everything is there.

Moved my sim into a custom house....

Things can be mounted on the walls  YEA!!

Some of the custom yard stuff loaded...ok I think all of it..

NONE of the custom buy stuff loaded...
got out of the game, yep all the stuff is in the folder, in downloads..and this is all stuff that had been working in the game before the problems started.... but now...not a darn thing....like I say, all the floors, walls, fences, that stuff is there, but absolutly nothing in the buy folder or the mods folder (items) shows up....

I swear, this game is going to drive me back to drinking!

Ok, maybe just swearing....
any ideas

Well, I just got finished re-installing everything....of the game that is.....am going now to download the new censor patch that ancienthighway told me about and get my CEP , Clean installer, and my CC pack in....

I'm going to look into all of the Mods (even those who will go unnamed) And see what happens....

I am actually quite excited about the whole thing...and I want to thank the both of you from the bottom of my heart for all your help..

In fact if you're ever in my hometown (and no, I not going to tell you where it is) Lunch at our towns finest diner is on me!

Another, caveat....it's a small town and only has a McDs and a Subway..... but hey....

Seriously  thank you very much....will let you know how it comes out.

Gorgeous, thanks for sharing

Ancient Highway, I think you've smashed the nail on the noggin..... I do use that mod seethem2...had forgotten all about it.....tadaaaa.

Do have a question, since my game is now uninstalled.. where will I find "user startup cheats"?

I'm a SimCity4 user, and have organized my downloads folder much as I did for that game....for example sub folders for build, buy, clothes, eyes, hair, sims, makeup, skins etc etc.....also one for mods....the only "unfoldered" items are the cep pkg and the censor pkg from seethem2.  Had started tosubdivide the folders also, such as in build I have folders labeled floors, walls, windows-doors-outside.... Do you think that changing my method to folders marked  game object, mesh, clothing, object recolor, etc would be more advantageous for this game?

Wow, am now excited to get going again......addictions are a terrible thing

Hmmm thanks for the quick response...will try the mod you suggest..... I don't think I have that many mods and hacks right now....or would if the game was loaded .. I thought I'd read the manuals through, but probably just skimmed them and will go back and see what they say..... trouble is discovering this great game so many years after it was released, there is just so much fantastic stuff out there to play with....so yes, have quite a few hacked object, paintings and the like...
I do know I've got the AL version of DMA, but havn't played with it yet, cause I can't mount the yellow and red controlers on the walls.... other mods are kind of a hodge podge ... like the "always flush and wash hands" , Numenors slot package", a "control this sim pkg" and a few others... I think at this stage, I'm going to reinstall everything tomorrow, with no cc....then install my cc folders 1 at a time... I've got them sorted by function so with go with the Makeup, hair, eyes, first....then the skins and by adding one at a time see what works...then when everything is back (assuming it all works) maybe put some mods in one at a time) thats what I did the last time and it worked for about a day or so.....
Wish me luck and thanks again.

Crying because I just had to delete the Sims2 for the gazillionth time in the last month or so....oh, and getting real tired cause its that time of day...

Not really a AL problem, but since I have that installed.......
Got the Sims2 for Christmas, now (like an idiot) have all the ep's and sp's....
Some of the problem I think is that I am addicted to downloads, doesn't matter the game, just love adding custom stuff.
From the very first, (which was Double Deluxe) now replaced with the base game as a starting point, it will be acting fine and then all of a sudden I can't place objects on walls.  Oh I can paint or wallpaper the walls...but nothing else will attach, not lights, windows plumbing, pictures, you name...won't take them.....and no furniture or anything else over 1 tile wide can be placed next to the walls either inside or outside.  
I have uninstalled many times ( so much so that I knew the original games serial number by heart).  I tried everything that EA customer support would suggest...have now become an expert at deleating everything in the compter that relates to the game.
I thought it might be the Inteen mod....because when I have installed that...the Sims will just stand there and not interact with each other in anyway..... I thought it might be ACR (which I really like)....I've thougth it might be the SimBlender which is my favorite of those types of mods....but with them out ..... nada....still have the same problem.  Have deleted and lost many add ons,  
The reason I'm here is the fact that I deleated it all again today and am just not up to the task of reloading everything again and starting one cc at a time...... because if I do find out it is just one simple package causeing the problem....well when I find that problem...will have to remove everything again and reinstall..
Oh, have also used the clean pack installer and have now gone so far that if something comes up any color highlight at all, it's gone.....
I'm really stumped on this and EA is no help at all....if anybody has any majic words or a new train of thought would love to hear from you........it hurts to go through an hour or so of deleating then more time installing and not being able to use the game as it was intended....

By the way I'm using Vista on a fairly decent machine with a middle of the road graphics card that runs everything else well.....

Help....
And thanks in advance...
Duane

OH...and something else i should mention...every time I go into a lot..... I get the popup that says object error..... won't go away with  retry or cancel ... just deleat... and the  error reports mmmmm I don't know how to read them...

What a beautiful sim...thanks so much for sharing.

Superb...thanks for sharing.

Very Very nice....thanks for sharing.

Very much a cutie....thanks for sharing.