I looked in Buy Mode at first lol, but remembered and checked under Build Mode.  Not there.
LOL thank you ness, that was the issue.  I'm such a dumbass!  The first time I brought up the game after the reinstall I turned off the dialog, but since I hadn't had any CC in the game at that point I hadn't gotten it the first time to Enable it.
*polonius crawls back under her rock*

Right, so I did a clean reinstall of my game when I got Pets.  Only cc put back in at this point is Body Shop stuff and hacks.  (I checked, her teleporter shrub is in my Inge - Hacks directory, not my Buy Mode directory - not THAT dumb lol.)  It's not showing up in my game now for some reason.    Is it not compatible with pets?

I made 32 freakin sims in CAS and now I can't make them townies OH NOES!!!!!1111oneoneone

No, but seriously, after so many hours of townie designing, this is pissing me off.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Damn! Part of me was afraid the problem was the recorded tracks they used.  Well, I thought I'd ask... seemed like if anyone knew how to do it, it would be the crew here.

It's strange how not everyone has the problem, and not all the time. 

Exactly what happens to me!  It's so irritating... I'll even take several minutes to make sure the camera is centered in the room the piano is in and focused on the piano and zoomed in so close I can't even see the Sim playing it any more!  Please tell me there's a way for some awesome one to hack this.

Okay, I've been looking around for a fix to this and can't seem to find one, so either I'm not looking hard enough or nobody else has had this issue.  Maybe the gods of PC games just hate me or something, but I canNOT hear the piano in my game!  When Sims are Performing... something I can hear them okay if I turn the volume up a bit, but when they Practice I can't hear them at all unless I turn my speakers all the way up.  And then if someone wanders by and cheers or if the phone rings, I jump three feet in the air and spill my soda all over my lap.  As a classical musician, I really want to listen to my Sims practice piano, though I'd like to find a less messy way to do it lol  .  Adjusting the 'music volume' in the game has no effect.  I may be non-awesome, but I at least thought to play with all my sound settings.
Does anyone know of a way to fix this (the piano, not my non-awesomeness )?

Yay! Nailati's still alive!    I was starting to worry lol.  Seriously, though, I can't believe how much work you've put into this project.  I would have given up ages ago!    I'm glad to see you're still working on it, even if intermittently.  It's definitely worth the wait!

In case anyone's interested, Numenor's recolors of atavera's contrabass are still on MTS2, and he has now uploaded the mesh to that thread 
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=60366
The mahogany one has been posted here, but the jazzy white one has not.

DrBeast: Thank you so much! I can colorbin the hair myself, that's no problem.  I really like it for rock star sims 

AnimatedWindowHack *is intrigued*  Would anyone with this hack in their game care to elaborate exactly what it does?  I'm guessing it enables creators to create window objects with open and closed conditions, similar to the one Helena has over at Pixel Sims (which has wonderful build mode objects, like sliding closet doors and swinging saloon doors, if any here are interested in such things).
To Raene: thanks so much for checking.  You don't have to turn your computer inside out looking for it, though; I'm sure somebody here will eventually post it.

Does anyone have the male hair atavera made?  A picture of it was posted up the thread a little ways but unless I'm blind the file itself hasn't been posted.  I'd be greatly appreciative if someone could share that

Just wondering if we could maybe get an update on the project, to see how far along things are... not that I'm trying to rush you, of course, I'm just eager to create my new neighborhood with your lovely sims in it.

woot!  so glad to see you're still alive and well... and also of course that the project is still inching forward lol  

Take your time, although honestly, to judge from what we've seen so far, a template you consider "imperfect" is probably infinitely better than the "finished" ones in Maxis's set. 

Lol I'm as excited (or maybe more so) about this project as for the upcoming EP!

download link isn't working for me either

Just wanted to show my face, so to speak... I'm one more supporter waiting with bated breath .

I've been there with the breakups too, hon.  I'm sorry you've had to go through one.  It always gets better with time though, even when it doesn't seem like it will.  Keep your chin up *hug*