I knew it was too good to be true that they fixed that many things, flashing their jumbo list without giving us an equally large list of new surprises!

that is definitely a different art gallery then.

I've used the launcher with no problem having awesomemod installed...

I had the same issue before, where the launcher stopped installing downloads(stuck at 0%).  I wish I could point you in the correct direction(i spent the last 5 minutes looking for it...I fail), but there is a post floating around this forum that has a download link of your sims directory folder to write over your existing one.  I did that and and my launcher worked again.  I hope someone can help you find this!  It may be in the thread that alaira linked you to?

My deco plane vanished too.  I remember putting it in the museum (since then the museum has been rebuilt, so it's no longer there), but I can no longer find the plane in the catalog.  Weird! 

is this why 99% of the time Sims are just standing aimlessly inside their home(or sometimes outside, wtf?) doing absolutely nothing but watching the air pass in front of their face? 

Will this even be fixable so sims will actually live out their lives and not stare at the air while "God" rolls a die?  It sounds like a game limitation rather than crappy programming.

this has been pretty disappointing, I really wanted to be able to watch other sims live out their lives and instead they don't do much of anything other than what a chance card tells them and even then you don't get to see it happen.

I'd love to be invited to birthday parties, new baby arrivals, weddings...SOMETHING that makes you feel like you're actually apart of this town they said was so full of life.