AH, okay!...I'll have to monitor that and see if I still can't get promoted daily...Thank you so much for that info, Rainbow..
I should have added this to my first post, but I'm also having troubled with my pregnant sims not having the extra couple of days off.  It says she'll have a couple of extra days, yet the carpool always comes that day...any ideas, rainbow?
Thanks again!!

Hi all,
I think I may be having a brain freeze, but I'm wondering...
Is it possible for sims to be promoted daily if they meet the required friends and skill points?  I thought it used to be possible....but lately my sims have to wait a few days in between, even if they've met all of the requirements.  Feel free to point and laugh at me..
I'm just not sure if my memory is failing me, or if there's a problem with my game now preventing me from being promoted on a daily basis.
See, I strive for my sims to achieve high ranking status at an uber-fast rate for i hope that in doing so, I might reflect the same in my own pathetic life. 
If it is possible for sims to be promoted daily, can someone tell me what may be preventing this from happening now?  Has anyone else come across this gross annoyance?   
I'd greatly appreciate any advice on this matter, and I will gladly trader my lips as for some much needed advice.
Thank you ever so kindly.

Hey Zooty,
The answer is yes...clothing will work.  I own a mac as well, and almost everything works the same as pc.  I have had no problems with any  downloads so far.  All objects, clothing, meshes (etc) have worked for me. Even some hacks have worked, though I don't use many on my mac version of the game.  I can't say that all hacked objects or hacks will work since I haven't tested many, but everything else should.  You just need to make sure (obviously) that the files are for sims 2 Original and not University.
Let me know if you have any other questions about the mac stuff.  I'm happy to help.
-RabidAngel

Wow, I had no idea that so many other people had this problem...
Luckily, about a month ago, I made a backup copy of my downloads folder, so I took the advice on this thread and dropped my old downloads in again....
 Sandilou,
I have only one instance of an ea games folder, and i don't have any other accounts on my system....I wish it were that simple!
This is the strangest thing, and it's the first time it's ever happened to me...
Now that I'm mulling it over, I'm remembering that my bodyshop had a sort of freeze when I tried to shut it down prior to losing those files...I left it hanging for at least 20 minutes while I did other things, because sometimes it just takes a while to shut itself down....Still, I can't be sure if that is when all of this happened, but it's certainly something that may have caused the problem...It seemed like a sort of crash, and I ended up having to end the task manually through the task manager.

From now on, I'll certainly be backing up my downloads regularly, but it'd still be great if anyone knew what might be the cause of such a problem. 
Has anyone else had the bodyshop shutdown freeze to find that their downloads were partially deleted?
I'm groping for ideas now, LOL....I'm just really really glad I had made a backup, though some of the downloads are most likely newer than a month old, the bulk of them are back and in tact....
Thanks for all of the advice and comments...I'd love to hear any other ideas.

-RabidAngel

Hi all,
Something really strange happened to me recently....
Many of my current downloads that were in use have disappeared.     I went into my game to find that many of my sims were missing hair and makeup.  So, I thought perhaps there might have been corruption in the sim data files, and went to go and hopefully remake the sims with the "change appearance" option in the mirror and found that a ton of files had gone missing.  Many hairstyles and other things are completely gone.  I went and redownloaded a few files that I knew where to find, and did a search throughout my entire computer for their exact file names, wondering if these files were somehow moved, but found nothing...It's strange because some files, which I had recolors of were still in tact, but it seems like the target files that were deleted were files that were currently in use on certain sims..
I am completely and utterly baffled as to what could have happened.  I rarely, if ever, dabble in simpe but do use sims2pack installer.  The latest thing I did that was out of the ordinary was opened up the new sims2 download organizer program put out by Maxis, but have no way of knowing whether or not this was when the files went missing. I did not alter any files with this program as I just opened it up to look at what all the hype was about and then closed it once i found that sims2pack clean installer was a better app for what I wanted.
Has anyone ever had files go missing before?  Can anyone take a guess as to what may have caused this strange occurence? It's the strangest thing to me...All of my saved sims files are intact...and many of my other downloads are fine, but there are a lot of missing files.  I have checked to see if somehow they were put in subfolders within my downloads folder and found nothing. And as I mentioned before, I searched for a few specific files across my entire computer, and found that these files are completely gone.
I have also done a couple of different virus scans and have had no odd or infected files come up...
Very strange, indeed....
I'd just like to know if anyone has had the same experience or can offer any semblance of an explanation.
Many thanks!
-RabidAngel

LOL!!
Okay...I hope you're right...The thing that made me think I screwed up was that I lost all relationships, which meant to me that I left some nasty empty data thingies (see how technically inclined i am?)
I could be wrong...I hope I'm wrong...I can't pronounce my p's with no lips...

Hi all,
I just made THE BIG mistake....I accidentally moved a lot with a family into my house bin...(I was meaning to move the empty lot next to it, and stupidly pressed okay to move the occupied house)
I don't know much about what happens when you do this...In fact, I only know that it screws things up royally..
My question...
Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this other than re-installing my game?
Is there a thread anywhere that has step by step instructions?
Am I over-reacting? 

I'd love any help....My lips are totally gone...I know this...I accept this. I'm an A$$