You're right.  It has been fixed.  Just download the new AwesomeMod!

Thanks everyone.  Deleting the groups.cache seemed to solve the problem.  Now I'm off to learn about getting secuROM off my computer and how to use a noCD crack.

Suddenly my game won't let me get into it anymore.  I would get to the launcher, click on it and then nothing would happen.  I tried bypassing the launcher (by right clicking on desktop shortcut, selecting properties, and editing the target line to read ....Sims2EP7.exe) but still nothing happens when I click on my desktop shortcut.  Any suggestions?

All of my hacks are back in.  My Sims are able to get pregnant and give birth.  I checked all my Sim females who were in pregnancy limbo and upon entering the lot each one popped out a pregnancy belly.  Thank the gods ... oh, and of course, thank everyone here for their help.  You guys are great!

New DC and no problem occurring.  Obviously my previous DC must have become corrupt when I originally downloaded it.  Now I've got to see if the other hacks were causing any problems as well. 

Unfortunately, it must be an awesome hack causing the problem as those are the only hacks that I have put back into the game so far (and please note that I am humbly bowing before the Great One in hopes that he won't destroy me for saying that an awesome hack is causing the problem - I know it must be something that I've done).  I'm going to download the DC right now and see if that solves it.

Oh, and yes Zazazu, I had run the hack conflict detector before (great program).  It only showed that TwoJeffs visitor controller was conflicting with Pescado's hacks but as long as they loaded one after another (which they were doing) there shouldn't have been a problem.

Alright - I've logged in and pulled out all my hacks and tried getting a Sim pregnant.  It all went great, she got her bump on schedule and gave birth.  But the crappy thing is that means that the problem is one of my hacks (even thought I had updated everything for free time).  I started off putting in my Pescado folder and although I could get my Sim pregnant, she wouldn't get her bump and I would get an error log again when I tried to speed up her pregancy.  Does the error log I had posted earlier tell which hack is causing the problem or should I just download the DC again?

Jolrei, by command line do you mean where it says "target"?  So it should say ...TSBin\Sims2EP8.exe  ?

No, I don't have Inteen.  I do have all EP's and SP's and all of my hacks have been updated. I'll pull them out tonight and try again and see if that helps at all (but, honestly, the thought of playing this game without any hacks makes me tremble with fear!).  Also, not being a smart person myself, I did not record the error log I was getting with the game so I'll check that and post it here later.

It started with one Sim family.  The parents "tried for a baby" and succeeded in making the baby music.  Mom's needs started decaying more rapidly and she was throwing up in the toilet.  But nothing happened - no bump, no pregnancy progression.  I tried the tombstone of L and D to speed up the pregnancy but all that came up was an error message.  When I tried resetting it, the message kept popping up and then I had to just delete the error message.  Of course I saved the family (stupid me).  The strange thing is this is happening now in all of my families in all of my hoods - the women can get pregnant but none can get to that first bump!  What the hell is going on?  How can this be affecting everyone?