I read in a post that every rabbit hole you can visit has a woohoo option.  It definitely works for the city hall.  Choose tour with so-in-so then click on the building.

So if there is some new malicious software, the crack for the latest pirated edition should also block it for the legal game right?

Yes not unraring the file was the problem.  I knew I was doing something stupid.  Thank you, I really appreciate the help.

So I'm going to be annoying and ask this again.  Does anybody have an answer to my question above.  Why won't the crack launch the game?  Do I need to do something to make act as a launcher?  pleeese i ned halp111!!!!!

I'm trying to install the post Seasons expansions and I can't get the no cd crack to work.  I've followed the seemingly simple instructions in the beginning of this thread.  I've downloaded the correct patch from gamecopyworld.com, placed it in program files\EA games\the Sims 2 last ep\ TS bin, then I created a short cut to the crack.  But, when I try to run the game from the crack instead of starting the game my computer just asks me which program I would like to open the patch in.  So what am I doing wrong?