I have only played (very short) vacation lot.  The one, sorry can't remember the name, but it was the tropical locale.  While digging for shells on the beach, I dug up shell earrings.  Well, and 2 crabs.  Some of the jewelry you can only purchase on the vacation lots.

I am decorating a house with no sims in the lot.  I read the info, I have one question.  If the game is just shutting down, will this still work?  I will try it and see if I can get it to happen.  Thank you for providing that link. 

I have run the clean installer, using subfolders, but I am not getting errors I don't understand.  I have attached my log file.

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Does this impact Vista Aero at all?  I have C2 Duo as well, with 4mgs Rambus on laptop.  I noticed a slight lag and the graphics are blurry.  Should I do this fix or not?  Thanks so much for the info.