I called the taxi to send him home one night (since he can't bring his car still...) and he got stuck shooing away invisible visitors with red -1000s scrolling over his head, although his aspiration was not going down.  I used boolprop to reset him and the game loaded his home without him getting in the cab.  No error log.

The next day, he keeps fiddling with something instead of pestering his customers to buy things.  He's listening to music!  This is a CAS sim, only a few days old, on a brand new, third time from scratch neighbourhood, haven't even had time to buy him a cell phone or a second outfit yet, let alone an MP3 player.  I took it out of his inventory, left it on the ground - it's not ticking, so hopefully this third try at an OFB neighbourhood is not going to explode.  Yet.  I thought I'd maybe leave the player there on the ground, like a landmine, as a reminder that I shouldn't get too attached

Maybe the wholesale dealers are quietly giving out perks

Thanks Sandilou - old one isn't scrapped, just moved far far away, in the unluckily event someone finds a fix/cause for this before I have time to rebuild.

Thanks for the tip, I do have XP, hopefully the templates generate this time but if not I'll copy over the neighbourhood from another user account, thanks.  Strangest thing, just did a brand new reinstall after getting a new computer built, so it's only taken five or six days of playing OFB to mess everything up.  Funny, Nightlife was the one I opted to wait on, thinking I'd sit out this buggy phase and it was the only one with relatively few

Well, I decided to delete the five day old Pleasantville, lose the Rank 10 businesses and start from scratch again.  After all, if you're not willing to restart due to serious bugs, you most likely didn't play any Maxis game longer than a few weeks. 

Moved the N001 files out completely, went to Programs, EA Games, The Sims 2, TSData, Res, Neighborhood Template to copy the N001 folder, and nothing is there.  I have templates for Nightlife downtown, three Uni templates, and an OFB template, but the main game template is empty.  How the heck did the pre-made neighbourhoods ever even generate when I re-installed on the new computer two weeks ago, without templates??  *sighs*

 It's not just you.  I use the 'Entertain-Joke' interaction almost exclusively now, until they get to 20 or so.

No, only one shopping district.

I did, however, marry a townie to Brandi Broke.  A day later, his duplicate came into her home business.  The game may have regen'd him and something may ghave triggered a massive domino regen.

When I first opened OFB, I went to my old custom saved neighbourhood and spawned the shopping district from the main window.  Of course, it was corrupted.  I deleted all neighbourhoods and files, reloaded saved neighbourhood and built the shopping district from the neighbourhood screen.  Seemed fine, but the saved neighbourhood had all toddlers and babies invisible and listed as "Unknown", and the parents had "Met $subject", and "$subject grew up well".

So I started from scratch in a brand new untouched Pleasantville neighbourhood, built the shopping district with the +icon in the neighbourhood window, used the template Bluewater Village.  Everything seemed fine until Brandi married a townie, but it's possible it started with my first store with another Sim, around the same time.

I know something is wrong with Melody Tinker - have heard reports of double Melody's and other glitches if anyone moves her to college.  Brandi hired her for the home business and her wage was three times that of any other Sim, with only low grade badges.  So they laid her off, hired someone else, and a duplicate of her walked into the store.  As far as I know, she is the only double non-NPC.