I was bought a new computer for my birthday.Intel Core Duo 2.80GHz, with NVIDEA GE Force 8400 GS card, and I thought great, now all my problems with Sims2 are solved! Boy was I wrong! Unfortunately my old computer caught a virus and the whole hard drive was corrupted before I could transfer all of my Sims2 stuff to CD`s, so I had to install the game completely from scratch. I installed all of the packs up to Mansion and Garden and the only custom content I have so far installed are Maxis recolours and a few mods. As soon as I go into a house to buy basic furniture, the buy mode freezes on the third item selected and the stupid egg timer just goes round forever. I disabled all of the mods, cleared the cache files and still the same problem. This is driving me nuts! Any ideas? 10th April 2009, I used Clean Installer to have another look in my downloads folder and found the problem (which was occuring in Misc Kids.). I deleted some files I had from Sim Addict (Maxis matching items, Nursery) and so far have had no further problems. Fingers and toes crossed!