ugh. ANOTHER issue with my game >.< [PROBLEM FIXED]

it was working perfectly fine over the weekend, but for the past two days it wont work. It loads to the neighborhood selection screen, and when i click on a neighborhood it acts normal. but then the music fades out and the mouse stops turning - which isn't abnormal because the game always does that- but then the mouse turns to the normal white one and it exits the game. Body shop wasn't working either. So i took out my newest downloads, which didn't work. but then i took out the new default replacements i installed (cell phones, pet eyes, and game systems) and so now body shop works, but the game still doesn't get past the neighborhood loading screen. Then i took out the entire downloads folder, and still no dice.
any suggestions?
i could re-install the game, but i haven't saved any back up files in a while so i would loose tons of my sims, lots, and the such. and i really dont want to do that. so are there any other options you could think of?

EDIT: i just realised that there are bodyshop files located in my C:\Documents and Settings\xgreydovex\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2 folder....is that a problem? I dont remember them being there before.

EDIT2: never mind everyone, i managed to fix it myself after i looked at another thread.....turns out those bodyshop files actually were the problem.