Answers to questions:
 1) The lots are for Night Life
 2)  I did install with Clean Installer. To to be sure, I tried to reinstall one with Clean Installer and this error box came up: "System.Xml.Xml Expection........" with various lines. 

I swear that error box didn't show up before.  *bangs head on desk* 

Now what?  Any suggestion is welcome!

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I have been creating a new neighborhood for my game.  I have have found the "perfect" lots to go with my theme.  These lots are all made by the same designer.  Most of the lots have loaded without any problems, but four lots never show up in my lots bin.  I can find the custom content in the downloads folder. 

At first I thought that terrain paints was the main source of the problem, but one lot doesn't have it.  Any suggestions on how to work through this issue?  Thanks.

Well, as long as Blue said it was okay......

Agreed JM needs glasses.  He also should not have posted Blue's picture.   

For what it's worth, I downloaded the NL patch without problems.  The only hacks I had were TJ's college adjuster and Mertorola (sp) mirror.  I didn't think to back up anything.  I played for an hour without unusal events occuring.

This given me hope.  I honestly thought the patches would be available as early as my Christmas present 2005 or my birthday present fall 2006.  Hopfully this has been a wakeup call to EA games regarding customer satisfaction.

Welcome back Reggikko.  Sorry to read about starting over with your game, but you are well which is the most important thing.

Tom, when I first started having problems with University, I didn't have any errors logs show up in the  logs your form references.  I finally sent a screaming rant on my report and stopped sending anything.
If I should buy Nightlife, have bugs, and the logs show no error logs, what would the patch team need to see? Information from the cheat box? Thanks.

If we hold off and not buy Nightlife until after October that could lower this quarter's profit.  I'm still waiting for the patchs before I buy Nightlife.

Go drink plenty of fluids (juice or water) and gargle with salt water.  That should help that cough.

It also sounds a lot like band or scout minutes.

One sim was a university grad.  The other was a teenager.  I've changed computer's with no success.  I'd hate to have to move the Grunt family out of their house to find out that won't work.  I'll try it with another family.  Thanks for the suggestions.

Since I've reinstalled my game, Sims iin Strangetown who look for a job on the computer are only offered one job.  All Sims are Maxis made sims on Maxis made lot.  Has any one else had this problem?  Any suggestions?

My geek just added another 512 of RAM to my computer to put me at 1 GB of RAM.   So far I'm quite happy with how fast my game and the lots load now.  At this point I can use the highest graphic settings without lagging.  Since I'm waiting to get Nightlife, this upgrade should be adequate for now.
Edit:  2 GHZ processor; Radeon 9550 graphics card.  I've been begging for a better graphics card, but my geek said he wouldn't put it in if I bought one. Since it would very dangerous for my game for me to attempt to install anything, I'll be happy for what I have.

Has anyone determined if any of the university problems were patched?

We're begining to get displaced families in our little N. TX town.  Today one of the kids enrolled at the school I was working.  She said her family decided to leave two days before the hurricane hit.  They were planning on riding out the storm until the police told the father, "If you don't leave now, I'm afraid you'll be carrrying out those kids in body bags."  She said they think their house is under 12-20 feet of water (east of New Orleans).

Since I've been on the band wagon about the stand alone patch for university, I thow that in any chance I get.  I figure the squeakly wheel gets the oil, or the lower the 4th quarter sales, the faster the patch comes out.

I filled out the survey yesterday.  I kept telling them I would not buy any sims products until the stand alone patch for university comes out.   Nothing they asked about appealed to me.

For whatever it was worth, my rc car "didn't have aspirations" when my game developed the blank icon bug.  My hubby fixed the bug by doing whatever kmlough's thread suggested.  I stopped using the car after that. Within a week I had so many game stopping bugs, I finally decided to use third party "fixes".  I wonder if the blank icon bug signals when a neighborhood reaches critical mass.

I've never had a sim forget to dress after showering.  Is there a certain personality type that does this?  It would be interesting to watch the first time or three.

I never know what my sims will wear to exams.  Does this sim have high level for outgoing?

Option 3 is my choice.  I had hoped that Maxis would have the stand alone patch out, so my family wouldn't have to ask me what I wanted for my birthday.  I'll admit I bought Universiity the day it came out.  I installed it and didn't have any problems for two months--then the bugs showed up.  Even if there was the stand alone patch, I want to wait and see what the problems are.

Both my BS and MS are in nursing so I guess that makes me not one of the artsy people.  I do love to sew and do needleart (well, I did before I owned the Sims2).  The thing I love about the Sims is that I control their lives in a way that I can't control my family's lives.