About the unable to complete adventure bug, I saved in home neighbourhood and deleted travel locations .pack and .nhd from save dir, so game had to rebuild location on next visit. This seems to have fixed the bug, at least for now. I have yet to determine if this happens on the second visit to location or if quests only work for sims that were in that location when it was built.

Btw, I keep getting non critical core mismatch when I run the game even though I made sure AwesomeMod is the only one in use.