OH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!

You have NO idea how much it aggravated me that this pretty mantle style clock could not be placed on the fireplace mantle! 

I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone...

I downloaded the mod that works with the patch- installed- moved it to my desktop- rebooted the pc- reinstalled the awesomemod- then downloaded the scriptenabler and installed it- moved it to desktop- rebooted- reinstalled.

Now it's working fine.  There is no rhyme or reason to this.  It is just that the start-up crash thing is so random I figured if I did random crap to my computer/game it might "fix" itself.

So far so good.  All I can say is- wash,rinse,repeat and pray it works. 

I've tried everything mentioned here...

I can't get my game to load now- it gets started a bit on the start-up/load screen and then POOF!  Oh well, I suppose there is nothing left to do but try to uninstall the whole damn thing. 

It was all working so beautifully untill the auto update. grrrr.

Sometimes I feel like listing all my EA crap on Ebay for a penny. 

Stupid launcher, stupid EA, stupid me for forgetting to uncheck the "auto update" option.   ]

Is there a way to uninstall the stupid patch?