I made not just one,but two mistakes (1) I bought a computer with Windows Vista and if that wasn't enough (2) I installed Bon Voyage. And yes it did drive me nuts.(fortunately, I've got medication to help)(no lie) One thing I noticed immeditately is that carpool cars used to stop at the sim's house and then just drive by. The same thing happened when I wanted my sims to go on vacation. That was resolved when I uninstalled and then reinstalled it. However, many objects that I try to append into my game since then do not show up, even though I get messages that say the download was successfully installed.(things like skins, statues, pictures, cars,and houses). I find that if the cc was not made with BV, then it's not worth my time to check to see if it's going to show up in my game. Is that right? Heck noooo! However, I like that my sim's can finally swim in ocean. As to Windows Vista, I can't find anything that I like about it, and if I did'nt hear that eventually XP will be phased out, I would be using it (again) on my computer right now. But, that's another looonng story. Happy simming. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There are plenty of great programmers out there on sites like this. They make great stuff/cc for the sims2.