Did you see this at the bbs   http://bbs.thesims2.ea.com/community/bbs/messages.php?threadID=578728eb397b07957f7f37fe42b34dce&directoryID=169&startRow=76&openItemID=item.169,root.1,item.43,item.61,item.41,item.127,item.23s
Haven't tried it, I just renamed my sims first names with Merola's painting and am living with the Maxian surnames.

I found this too. My college sim had blank slots but they filled up the next day. She also was obsessed with buying stuff.....not the usual wants for a knowledge sim. Now a semester has passed she is back on track, wanting to do her term paper etc. She still wants to buy drums, but then lots of kids want stuff they can't afford 

Oh good One less worry 

I had the Greenman couple have a baby the regular woohoo way. A boy which was nice, but he was the darkest skin tone with red eyebrows. Just like Jenny and Poll Techs third child before they fixed the skin tone issues with NL. Now maybe she was the darkest tone to begin with (pre plantsimism), but it makes me wonder if the DNA is buggy again.
Baby boy is very restless. Good job I play with the sound off and can't hear him 

On the changing to outerwear issue, I found that they only do so for the first couple of days in Spring, then will go outside in their usual clothes. I haven't got through an autumn yet so I don't know when the change back to wearing outer wear, but at least in summer they are not running around in their winter coats 

I can't imagine waiting two hours for the game to load, I'd assume it was broken long before that. Being a low tech person V.s solution would work for me 

Since the patch my toddlers are bald  As the two I have had so far are both alien I rather like the look. I plan to keep it for them, even if they transition to hair at childhood. I haven't seen the maid glitch, the only maid in my game seems to be Alyana Dallas and she is fine.

I use unlockcareerRewards in the cheat box in normal game play. I do like the career rewards, they make skill building fun 

I just had Brandi ask the matchmaker for a date, and she got Cyd. As the boys came home from school at the same time she didn't have time to do much with him. Cyd found the date boring  Guess he likes pets more than kids, but we will see.
I had Mortimer be best friends with her. I thought he would leave his old mate Bobs daughter a good inheritance, but no, only a few hundred simoleans.

I hope EA posts this info in a sticky. It's hard to find in the middle of a long thread, so many people won't see it.
I have always had Nvidia cards and been fine, perhaps having 1 gig ram has saved me 

I'm pleased to see that no pets can be Downtown alone. Strays wandering in and destroying my Crypt O'Night club was really annoying. My vampires should have attacked them, but they are more tolerant than I am.
The fridge bug is not mentioned. Neither is one of my favorites, sims having pet wants for other sims. in my Uni Delilah  thinks Roxie Sharp is a dog and wants to rub her belly 

I have a separate user account. I put the new hair/outfits in it's downloads then fire up it's body shop and have a look. Not very tech of me but it works  Then just move the one's I want to my real game and delete the others.

From the neighborhood view my pools are white too. That is with a Fx 7600 GS 256 mb PCI Express card, which is as good as I'm going to get for a long time. The maxis pools on lots that I have not visited are still the nice bright blue they should be, but after I visit and modify they become white.
Back before we had all the ep's (and when I had a lesser card) they stayed blue, even after I would change things. I just blame the game....thinks look good on the lot and that's all that matters. 

This should give you the Pets key and from here you can find the others
 http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=14210&p_created=1161137602&p_sid=WBEwcFoi&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9MjUmcF9wcm9kcz03LDcwMCwyMzQ3JnBfY2F0cz0wJnBfcHY9My4yMzQ3JnBfY3Y9JnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&p_topview=1

On the subject of Pet tubs http://www.meshkiste.de/einzelobjekte.html looks interesting. I have just downloaded it, haven't tried it yet.

I have that card (the 7600) and run problem free. Not very helpful am I  Seiously though, when I had it installed I ran a defrag and then reinstalled the game. Which it seems you have done.
I have a Pentium 4 3.2ghz with 1 gig Ram and am using the 91.31 drivers.
Possibly the only thing I am doing differently to most is that the machine I use for simming is not connected to the internet, so I have no antivirus running in the background. I do remember being unable to install Uni on the family machine until my Norton's was turned off.
So my winning formula is 1gig ram, 91.31 driver and no anti virus  If you have tried all this then I guess we have to wait for a tech expert.....I'm sure one will show up soon.
Have you seen this http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5832.0.html it is about a different card but has a driver cleaner link and another driver link that might be of interest.

What am I not seeing? Isn't that just the after woo hoo cuddle?

That's a good tip Gwill, i have been neglecting the OFB stuff. A dog playing in the water wiggler would be pretty cute 

Thanks Karen for that link, it's a good start  Thanks Inge for allowing non registered people to download 

 Actually I'm waiting for some bright creator to make a pet usable tin washtub. I don't really want to wash the dog inside, using the same tub the family uses. No one I know with dogs does that.
Having to rearrange my houses so the tub is dog accessible is a pain too.

So far for me, it's just Erin Singles who won't clean up her plates. As the maid does, and Kristin does, I've decided that Erin is just being a princess and am letting her get away with it 

Don't know about a hack, but the cheat is unlockcareerRewards I use it all the time 

  I'll let it remind me in 3 days then, give me time to mull over whether I need it updated or not 

It may be a silly question but......Something called Java wants to update itself. Now that's o.k? It's a legit computer thinngy? I know we have Javascript so I assume Java 5.0 Update 9 from Java (TM) is just an update of an exsisting program. With all these virus infections going around I thought I should ask before I go ahead 

I'm looking forward to this  I haven't got the game yet, but when I do I will have to learn how to resize paintings. Do we know what size they have to be?

I just love it when the babies throw up on the idiot who tosses them in the air Maybe the hack can include a serious scratching (or just the throw up interaction) which is what they would really get!