Ok, I took time out of my busy schedule to play again and low and behold-no mail at uni AT ALL.  The mail man just stands around for a while and leaves.  Its working fine in the hood as long as I dont use the kill bills before they even recieve any.  Strange things are a happening.  Perhaps its time for a re-install.  Hmmm come to think of it maybe I will just clean out my download folder first and see if it helps.
Only upshot to this is they kids are saving a lot of money and nothing gets reposessed.  Even if the man comes he doesn't take anything.  Just lazors the object but doesn't remove it.  Me thinks he cannot take dorm items that came with the house and I rarely buy items or redecorate the dorms.

Take care, been through a few and they are no joke.  Put your electronics up high just in case (I had my whole computer on one shelf of my closet in the last one I went through.)

So finally after a sim week the mail started back up so I guess the problem isnt permanent.  Too bad, I kind liked not having to worry bout the bills.  ohh well life goes on.

When I first enter a lot I run the debugger.  Even though my sims have not even lived a day there it always kill a bill and after that I get no mail.    I have yet to have the repo man show up but is this supposed to happen?  It continues to happen even after saving and coming back later.  Oddly enough this started in strangeville which I just started to play (yeah I know but I didnt care too much for the maxis made hoods-just got curious about having an all alien hood so trying to breed out the humans).  I see the mail man come every 3 days and put it in but I cannot get it out (box has no actions message) and if I run the debugger it doesn't kill any bills.  Where are they going?

Well your not the only one who has this problem.  I get it once in a while.  I thought it was strange that a level 5 cook would only get the instant meal option for dinner.  It has happened to me on several different lots in 3 different neighborhoods.  The most recent one was last night in Strangeville.  Previously it was Pleasantville.  The first time was in my custom neighborhood, so that ruled out it being the maxis ones.  I also changed out the fridges, and none of these lots have diagnal doors on them though I have not gone through all the houses and checked for them (I do know that Pleasantville has a few).  It seems that it affects the whole lot and not just certian sims or fridges.  I had an apartment with 4 units and all residents could only get the instant meal no matter which fridge I tried.  This lasted for about 3 sim days then cleared itself up.  Last night I was playing Strangeville and had it happen.  I quit the lot and got out of the game shortly after so I am not sure if the problem will still be there.  Lets hear it for maxis bugs, they always make the game so much more interesting.

Hey at least you can get to the chat room.  I still haven't figured out where it is.

I stopped using the birthday cake.  Everytime I get one on my lot it only has the option to clean up.  I have had problems with the wedding cake too.  My couple just stood there finally I stopped the cut cake option and then later they wouldn't get into the limo.  Finally the husband got in but the wife never did (he went on the honeymoon alone) both of their stats got refreshed though so I wasnt too worried.  I think it is a problem with the fact that everyone on the lot has to attend these two.  If it takes a while for everyone to get there it drops from the list.  The few times I had problems with the birthday cake I had to buy 2 or 3 before I got one with the options and even then I am lucky if anyone will eat it, it again gives the only option as clean up so I cannot make PS's eat a peice if they don't do it autonomously after the transition.  It also makes everyone freeze in place for a brief time after the transition (maybe thats when the cake is going into 'you can't have me mode').  I did have them standing up in the dining chairs once but I cant remember if that had to do with the cake or not.

Ok at the risk of sounding stupid...what is cigen content?  What do groups cache do?

Yes I saw his post on the torches (after I posted this) and it left little doubt as to him getting it.  LOL can't wait to see what he does!

Where did you get the clip from? 

I could be wrong but...perhaps the reason they are not worried about making patch is the fact that they will be made by players.  Why should they spend their time on it if we will.  I have some of the bugs but not all of them, however as my nieghborhoods grow and become more complex I find more.  I don't think I would enjoy the game at all if not for JM and TJ.  I personally have no intention to buy the game until its tested by other players and I have some idea of its problems.  I also hate the idea of removing the fixes just to see what they patched just to figure out what I need to put back in.  Maybe they should ship a free copy to the folks who work so hard to fix it so they can test it and let maxis know how to fix them before releasing the game to the public.  At least there would be some sort of reward for their hard work (not having to shell out money for their bugs).  Of course we will all be up shit creek if JM decides not to get the next expansion-well I will be anyway.
Consider this your one and only thank you, these things don't grow on trees.

Ok, now that I have applied cocoa butter to lips so as not to make them too easy to rip off, I will ask my stupid question.  I created a family in CAS and they had a baby.  I hired a nannie and she took care of the child.  I never fired her she just stopped comming when my child transitioned to teen.  I recently started playing this family again and have had a second child, delivered at 3:20 am.  I recieved the message stating that my sim would have 3 days off from work to take care of the new baby so I had her eat and get into the shower.  Before she got out of the shower the nannie showed up and then my sim went to work.  I wasn't planning to hire one until the last day before work but somehow she had to go to work just hours after giving birth.  Is a nanny generated by your hack this way or is this some glitch in my game?  This isn't the first sim I have had that has not gotten her 3 days off but it is the first time a nanny showed up like this.  Do they stay employed by you if not fired just waiting for the next birth to show up? (the nanny never even touched the baby the whole time she was there but did clean the house and cook a meal for the teen when she came home from school)