More Awesome Than You!

Just recently I added a few mods to my packages folder - one to enable non-default skintones, one to provide the non-default skintones (both of which are supposed to be compatible with Awesomemod) and a few other standard hairs/clothes/jewellery from a variety of sites for a downloaded sim off of MTS. Nothing else has been changed in the game folders, so I'm thinking it's probably a result of conflicting mods, but I never expected it to bork things this severely.

After I added these mods, Create-a-Sim now seems to load indefinitely (I left it overnight and it still failed to get past the loading screen). I tried running it without any mods except for Awesomemod, and when that failed to work I wiped everything and did a full un-install/re-install, still to no avail.

I've been searching online for a solution for the past couple hours and have come up with nothing, so I'm hoping you guys have seen this before or have some insight into what can be done. Any ideas?

Edit: I'm running an arr'd copy of Sims 3 & WA on Windows 7, and am updated to version 2.3.33.003002 if that affects anything

Have you tried using the process monitor to see what it's loading? It may help you work out what CAS is getting stuck on. Otherwise slowly remove content until you get CAS back, and then add it back in batches until you know the culprit.

I've removed all mods from the packages folders except for Awesomemod and the configuration file, and the .dbc files which always worked before and I've never changed. According to the process manager it's not accessing either after I load CAS (unless I missed it or am reading it wrong). The only file it's accessing after I load CAS is "TS3EP01.exe" in the World Adventures >Game>Bin directory, which is showing up in the process manager hundreds of times. =/

Have you cleared your script.cache?

I believe so. After I uninstalled I deleted the entire Electronic Arts folder from the My Documents folder, so that was all re-created first time I ran the game after re-installing. (It's backed up in a folder on my desktop, but I've made sure to keep it totally separate from the game folders in My Documents/Program Files) However, it doesn't appear to have changed anything aside from the obvious removal of save files & whatnot

Edit: I updated the game to version 1.9 on impulse and am running the test version of Awesomemod, and CAS is loading again, even after I re-added my mods folder & whatnot. Still don't know what caused the whole thing in the first place, but it's working now so I suppose it doesn't really matter much anymore.

And thanks for the help, Skadi. I really appreciate the assistance, and not getting poked at with sticks for my failure  :D