I've had the same glitch.  Fiddling has never brought things back, though.  Perhaps I don't fiddle the right way.  Everything has always returned to normal when I load another lot, or the same one.  Nothing has blown up permanently yet.

Had to share this.  Note, knowledge sim.  Also note that the sim she wants to inherit money from is her husband, they have the typical 100/100 relationship and he is FAR from even aging to elder.  Never seen anything like it before!

One day I will.  But not yet.  Nice to know I'm missed, anyway.

Does Gwill even know it exists to be able to request it?  And will a request from a Ness suffice to get it released? Please?

I'm finding that I'm not really liking autoyak deciding that it doesn't need to call particular sims.  It seems to leave my teen sims in permanent social desperation unless I want to sit there and manually call sims.  I've got several teen sims in different houses where the social is in the absolute red, they have several friends with STR in the 60-80 range (or thereabouts) and autoyak isn't even making the call friends option available for them.

Please fix?  Doesn't seem so bad with other ages, but this feature is killing my teens!

The most expensive stove is NOT the one you need - definitely your problem there.

Hadn't thought of that...  I don't think I want to be the person to try it and find out, either!

Since BV it is possible to delete subhoods without first adding another of the same type.  This possibly even came in with seasons, but it was after BV that I noticed the trashcan was no longer greyed out with only one subhood of that type.  It still dumps the residents into the sim bin, though.

I thought the last line was along the lines of "a pirates life for me"...  But I try not to listen too closely when I let my sims learn it.  

Pescado did give a suggestion way back in the first reply...  deleted 2.  But, the consensus seems to be your hood = toast.  Start over.  Do we need to say this another 50 times?

You do realise that if things went wrong at the merge neighbourhoods point, it would really only become apparent as you played?  The problems that too many characters, unlinked characters, and all those other bad things cause don't show up straight away.  They slowly become more and more obvious as your game appears more and more borked with time.  The BFBVFS is not an immediate thing - the lead up to it is slow, but the end result is pretty spectacular, as you appear to be discovering.

End result: You're screwed.  Start over.

If you value your friend's opinion and skills so highly, why aren't you talking to them instead of people at MATY?

If everything that is said to you is going to be rejected with "but my friend said...", what really is the point of continuing to ask questions?

ARRRGGHH!!!

new problem - I'm now getting an error message "please insert the original disc instead of a backup (1000).

Only problem is that it is the original disc.

I'm not normally one for no cd cracks and such, but this sodding game seems to be forcing my hand right now!

Erm...  was that me?  I thought it was jsalemi's suggestion.

Have I mentioned that I have an excellent forgetory?

Just wanted to add...  since being reminded of deleting groups cache (something I always forget), I'm finding that when BV gets in a snit about loading, deleting groups cache seems to ensure that it will actually load with the next attempt.  It's still a dance through task manager to kill the process first, but at least it appears to be only once.

Only twice so far, so not an exhaustive test just yet, but it does appear promising.

It takes true skill to do that!    Comes from being a high school teacher and needing to point out the bleeding obvious on a daily basis.

You could try removing nouniprotect if the idea of dead dormies is somehow offensive to you.

XP pro. SP2, not sure on admin status.

Same problem here.  Pretty much identical situation to Gwill apart from it being a CD version.

Gets really frustrating having to keep opening task manager and kill the process and try again over and over and over...

Ideas would be helpful!

Maybe your servo was just feeling suicidal?

I burninated my test hood with the adopted bigfoot - I don't recall his skin not being showerproof at all, but I do recall that BUY refused to ever see him as clean.

If they didn't have a fear of losing their job or being demoted, then there's really nothing that can impact on the aspiration meter.  I know it makes no sense when seen in the light of the physical world, but it makes sense under the constraints of the game.

And make trying to make any wardrobe adjustments a complete pain in the butt!

Hook at one stage managed to change the rate of decay for perma-plat only sims in his semi-perma-plat hack.  Might be worth talking to him or checking it out for ideas.

Afraid I can't do that.    Surely someone else has done it and can confirm?  Anyone?