BV DC, minus norespawns, harderjobs, and nouniprotect.  And Monique's computer.

What operating system are you using?  If it is windows XP, I might be able to help you fix it so it is useable.

Open up a folder in view mode.
Go to Tools->folder options
Click on the file type tab.
Scroll down until you find the .package extension.
Set .package to open in SimPE or your .package viewer.

That's the best I can do, but I do know that somewhere there is a way to de-associate file types.  Perhaps someone much more awesome than I?

I've found that if you use a double door as the front door, and an "interior" door as the back/basement door, it seems to remove the back door delivery problem.  Any way you look at it, though, the EAxis door system is fucked up.

Do you use "localwalky" by Pescado?  I haven't seen a vacation townie in my regular hoods since I put it in.  It keeps people in their own places.

Thank you, Oh Great Gwilly One.

*Mitchie prostrates herself in thanks*

I never tried it without the seasons rules, so I can't answer.  It is quite difficult, and temptation to cheat must be fought a lot in my case.  I've been considering using pre-seasons rules.  Anybody know if Pinstar is going to update for bon voyage?

Mr./Ms. Gwill, I apologize for not knowing your preferred gender-based title, but would you please ask for this undiscovered shiny?

When did this start?  Had you downloaded a new batch of custom content right before this happened?  CC can sometimes have odd effects, but I've never seen anything like that before.

Viral Orgy reminds me either of a band name or a very wild party with HIV infected participants.

Do you have any hacks, cheats, mods, or other custom content in your downloads folder?  This is not normal Sims behavior, for a newly created sim to wish to pummel unknowns.  More information please.

I thought it said it was out of here?  Damn Liars.

I could have sworn multiple of us indicated that you could not just disable it and you had to remove it?  Some people apparently can't read in context.

My game performance has altered little, but my DVD Burner software now works.  Before I payed closer attention, I actually went out and bought new (yucky) software for it that was "SecuROM Compatible".  With a No-CD executable and SecuROM removed, my old software functions properly again.  Also, no random hits on my firewall.  I don't know if everyone sees this, but my computer kept trying to contact someone or something about every 15 minutes before I removed SecuROM.  Now it doesn't do it at all unless I tell it to.  Again.  Finally.  The gods of sand that were compressed into chips to make my computer are happy again.  Techno-Shaman rule.

Last resort?  And here I thought it was the tried and true method.  In all my searching on the net, I have found no other clearly written step by step guide for removing SecuROM from a BV installation.  I hope you don't have to reformat your computer because you fucked with your registry.  Reformatting computers because of SecuROM is a debunked myth.  Reformatting computers because you borked it beyond repair messing with something you shouldn't have is more common, and likely if you don't know EXACTLY what you are doing.

I'm just wondering where s/he got a dam.  Is it a beaver dam?  I know that none of the major dams are privately owned.  Perhaps s/he built a dam in the back yard, and doesn't want to give it up?

Mr. Gwill?  Could you please request this shiny?  It sounds WONDERFUL. 

I can't find securom on oblivion or shivering isles.  I also can't find any reference to a security-type program anywhere on their site, although I do need the disk to run it.  So, safedisk is my guess for their anti-pirating software.

I have managed to place several beach lots I downloaded from MTS2.  They work fine, with all interactions, including swimming, functional.  They were all created in vacation destinations as "vacation homes", but I have placed them in my main hood.  Perhaps where they were created has an impact?

MS DOS?  Anyone remember Apple IIE?  The Commodore 64?  Programming in BASIC, "Hello World", backing things up on real cassette tapes, the innovation of the "hard" floppy, now THOSE were the days.

It could be the cars.  EAxis has published that it has redone the cars and to redownload.

There is nothing you can do to save your hood at this point, that I know of.  "Abort, delete, retry" is the only solution I am aware of.  Once things go borked in a neighborhood, they stay that way.  You cannot save them through any method known to me, and I've looked.  If I am wrong, I welcome the pointy sticks of the other MATYers, as long as the poke is followed by WHY I'm wrong.

Your blind defense of your "friend" who apparently didn't mess up your computer, according to you, but DID do things you don't understand to your neighborhoods, files, and characters, is what has people up in arms.  They need to know exactly what you've done/had done to your files before they can assist you.  You should never allow someone to do things you don't understand to your computer.  EVER.  RTFM is helpful, friends who explain are helpful, blindly having faith that a friend is absolutely right, even if he can't/won't explain is not.  If your friend had posted the info here, lots of MATYers would have run off to try it, finding whether it works.  It would then be discussed, rehashed, modified, and applauded as needed.  Your friend is full of shit if he says he has the one true way.  Your files are screwed because not even YOU know what has been going on with them.  You don't know what your friend did to them.  You don't know what you've done to them.  No, you won't get help here, because to help, we need information, which you can't provide.

Whine whine whine.  Too many characters... I found why this is bad by SEARCHING THE FORUMS.  Do so or sod off.  Bitch bitch bitch You come here asking for HELP.  These people try to HELP you, and you throw a hissy.  They are right, your friend is wrong.  Just because he doesn't see it doesn't mean its not there.  The people on these forums have been nothing but helpful to anyone who RESPECTFULLY states problem,  listens/reads solution, and posts INTELLIGENT questions about solutions.  If this is not your experience, look in the mirror for the problem.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=235337

Ugly thing.

Outerwear does have a very minor influence on how fast sims freeze.  It is practically useless, however.  The difference is minimal.