FYI.  I finally fixed this.  Intelliguard on Spyware Doctor was preventing a write to the Sims 2 save files on both the neighborhood and individual lot level by the game.  I added exceptions to the Global Actions List for the following files in the Sims 2 Mansion and Garden Stuff/TSBin folder: Sims2EP9.exe; Sims2Launcher.exe; Sims2UPD.exe; Sims2UPD16.exe; Sims2UPD0.exe

Problem is now solved.

For those using Spyware Doctor with an earlier expansion pack, you could probably do the same for the equivalent files in the TSBin folder for whatever was the latest expansion installed and have the same luck with it.

Are you still using Spyware Doctor?  I'm using it, and your response has intrigued me.

Hmm.  How'd that happen.  This would be the correct answer.  Pretty Weird.

again.

The subject line says it all.  I recently had a hard drive crash.  After replacing the dead hard drive, I've done a clean install, reinstalling the EPs and SPs (I have all of them) in order, and patching the EPs and the 1 SP as I go

Running it off of Mansion and Garden Stuff, fully patched, in each of the neighborhoods, it takes like 5-6 minutes to load, and cycles each time with the Creating Pets, Creating Weather, Creating Exotic Locations, etc, as though it's the first time I've played the neighborhood.  I can't get it to stop.

Now this wouldn't be a problem in itself, but it's also got a glitch where if I move a Sim off the lot (to go downtown, community lot, whatever), when the Sim returns to the lot, the clock resets at the 8 AM Monday.  On an Apartment lot, it doesn't even recognize that my Sim has indeed actually chosen to rent one of the apartments.

I haven't reinstalled any custom content, and I'm running nothing in the way of hacks.

Has anybody else run into this?  If so, do they have a solution that goes beyond "your install is hosed"  This is the second time I've done a wipe/reinstall, and it's getting a bit tedious.

Thanks for the help.