Now that I like! "Promotions Optional" is a decent way to go, but then I'd worry about people who want to put off promotion (rather than preventing it forever) wanting to use the option so it needs to come up every couple of Sim days, and those who want to stop progress completely. It would make it more difficult to try accommodating both.

Twink:

http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html

Paint.net, free photoshop-esqe program available on the internet.

I'd say tails on hips, although if you're making Nightcrawler you might want the tail and a belt, lol.

Yeah I had one of the unoccupied lots in Pleasentview disappear on me as well, but I restart hoods so frequently I didn't really worry about it. No idea what caused it, and I hadn't even played a full generation when it had happened. The only reason I noticed it was missing is because I was going to move someone into it, lol.

I had a wedding party recently (before I decided to dump Pleasantview) and my guests ate from the buffet and the wedding cake just fine. Heck, the party ended shortly after, so all the leftover cake slices got put in the fridge and they ate for 2 days after. *shrug*

  I like those recolors...

I tend to get those kind of reactions from Romance sims pretty often myself, but the sim they want to "cheat" on their date with isn't always around. It can get really annoying, and I find that usually the only thing that really fixes it is going to a different lot. Of course, I don't usually remember to put lot debuggers on my community lots, so I don't know if that would help either.

Sometimes I have it happen with other Aspirations, but usually they are either more attracted to the other person or have a pretty decent relationship with them already (at least friends).

Someone who knows SimPE much better than I could probably tell you how to determine which base game file holds those items, and you could try replacing just that file (or files) from your original game discs.

I so totally need to get impaled skull  decoration for lawns now, would work great with some of the other creepy S2 stuff I have! 

If someone ever makes an impaled sim-head fence, I'll be sure to get it to put around your bunker!

The sofa does come in a range of colors. And it's really super-cheap simolean-wise. I have it, and I've used it in new households. 

I don't know who Khan is, but I do know who spambi is, and if you look at when they were created Khan could potentially be spambi's sock puppet, but I really doubt it. Of course, having about 30 recolors of the one mesh I know spambi made really helps with remembering someone in this community, lol.

Those Simhost sets totally make me think, "Where's Waldo?"

I actually had to go back to my submissions to figure out which one got me mentioned. I totally agree with your assesment, and I probably wouldn't have looked twice at it if the skirt had been longer. 

Maybe it's their way of telling you they want to resurrect him, but not on their home lot.

It occurs to me that if someone needed this translation, they wouldn't know what a "dump stat" is anyway, so what good does it do to translate the abbreviations?

You can get that Sussi hair from The Sims 2 Graveyard: http://sims2graveyard.com/

Witch, do keep in mind that you can set multiple skins to the same value. That should help the limiting problem a little, at least.

I figured that if your CEP install somehow got corrupted, certain recolor options disappearing would be a likely indication. :shrug: Glad it worked, whatever went wrong.

Have you tried reinstalling CEP?

I bet it's a Warlokk nude replacement mesh. If you have the mesh, you get a nippled top, if not, you don't. Which means the creator of the texture didn't have to spend any time on them.

In the meantime, as far as the inventory is concerned, you can use this until the Awesomeness becomes available:
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=228385

I noticed that, it was annoying, so thank you. Just for clarification, should they all now show properly in the correct bins, then? It seemed that some of the colors were missing altogether, although I might have been imagining it....

Look, just because you had faces for these skintones doesn't mean they are supposed to be there. Before I even knew there was downloadable content for the Sims 2, when all I had was up to NL, I found the debug cheat and created myself an alien family. They did not have any facial templates. Also, I'm surprised that you aren't also complaining about your mannequin sims not being able to give birth, because unless you've downloaded something non-Maxis hacked CC, they have no baby skintone. Could one of your kids possibly have downloaded CC for the Sims onto your computer?

I have no idea if what I'm thinking would have an effect, but when you make the flat "under-roofs", are you using the tile auto-roofing function? Since the code is apparently touchy about what a roof is, that might have an effect?