Re: The Patch - I've also installed it hacks and all and have had no trouble *crosses fingers*

Re: The Ottomas Family - I used InSim to fix the father situation. Although admittedly I only play them because I am hugely masochistic...the twins are even fuglier than the rest of the family(yes trust me - and my eye bleach - it's true, here is my link to the Blog I did on them).

I will also add here I love this site and the hacks here-in

This sounds wonderful! Now to get some Awesome One to do it ... 

I have to thank all of your for getting me to look around again at the custom defaults that are available and supplying links as well, I am now comparing skins and may very well pick out a new one! I've also found many other lovely things

Thank you so much! 

Thanks to everyone that included links ... I've been using Helene's but may be willing to switch if I can find the right skin.

As someone else has already seconded this I shall third it. I feel like I'm missing bugs since I don't have the courage to click on things I don't understand ... Pretty Please a new RTFM JM? I'd promise to be your fangirl for life but I already am

Cass

A friend of mine also had the freezing problem with her custom CAS. This is what she found out:  Your custom CAS will work fine if you create it in Pets, the issue only exists with customs CASs created in Seasons. So if you make it in Pets and then install Seasons, you're fine

Of course this may not be useful at all, she can do it fine because she has more than one computer with the Sims2 on it.

*sighs* Well the information may be useful to ~someone~ ... *wanders back to lurkdom*