Nevermind about the Sims from body shop...I found my answer elsewhere. But, I'm still unsure about the custom sim for story mode...would he/she be made as an alternative to choosing the premade male or female?

Yeah, the cheat window not working in story mode causes me a bit of a headache. I have the issue with the ATI Radeon 1200 card causing stretching of my sims' skins and hair (same as in Sims 2) so I have to use boolprop useshaders false all the time. So, to make life nice and complicated, I have to go to the neighborhood island and put in the command, then load a lot and put it in again, then put it in the neighborhood a final time (just in case) and then it fixes the problem in Story mode. At least it does work all around...phew!

You can create a custom sim to play story mode?? How? Also, is there a way to import sims made in Body Shop into Castaway Stories?

Well, I'm really diggin' the look the the athletic guy meshes, but after crusing InSIM, I'm having a hard time finding stuff for him...we need more athletic guy meshes and recolors!! Or am I not looking in the right place. I've been in all of Marvine and Beosboxboy's subthreads, searched for "athletic guy," looked in other artists' forums...there's precious little at MTS2 either...help!

Ah, one of the places I didn't look...thank you so much! Awesome work, btw - great to have diversity in the game! :-P

I was able to get linked Louis/SimCribbling skintones for the Athletic guy and Slim bodybuilder guy, but I can't find any for the Bodybuilder guy...does anyone know if there are any?? I LOVE Louis' skintones and have those set up as defaults rather than Maxis' ugly things...