used the launcher, I loaded Town Life after I loaded the base game to save on having to download all the patches one after another, perhaps I should not have done that.  But it claims to be patched fully to 9.0.73 on the launcher.  I had to reload all my Sims games today.  I can do it all again I guess to get AM to work, it's that important to me.
Edit: I reloaded everything for a second time, launched and got the same result.  Going to remove ALL mods but AM and try this again, think I did this first.  If same gonna unload and try what you suggest next.
Edit2: As I thought, no change.  I will try a manual patch job and see what happens.  I did not allow the game to patch after Town Life this time however.  I was getting messages that my base game was more advanced than Outdoor Life and town Life?

 When I loaded them?  That seemed not right.
Edit3: ok, for the third time I am going to unload all my game and reload it, this time doing a manual patch.  Hopefully this time it will work right and I will be able to use AM.  If not I am at a loss as to what is wrong.