Why...then you go back to fairies & myths & legends, of course!    Read any Piers Anthony lately?  Best author for tongue-in-cheek, satirical, double entendre I've read in decades.  Actually, I've been a fan for decades...and have trouble keeping up, he's such a prolific writer.  I can almost guarantee that when anyone (who even remotely enjoys SciFi/Fantasy) reads the first novel in his Xanth series, he/she will be hooked for the duration.  I lost count at seven...or was it eight?...novels, and the series is still going strong. 

I absorbed Robert Heinlein novels like a sponge until Number of the Beast.  Near the end of the book, he got altogether too wierd, or it was way beyond my intellectual capabilities at the time, and I lost interest.

I will read almost anything...except Danielle Steele, that is.  Entirely too scripted and predictable for my taste...sorta like pablum.  I much prefer a writer who assumes I made it past grade school.

Wow!  This is great!  A wee fix for those of us who tend to neglect our relatives...

Cain't say it enuf...love what ya do, JM! 

I spent years and years in business, then flip-flopped and went back to school for a technical degree in medicine.  Now I'm back to running the family business.  The past 25 years I've maintained a hobby-like devotion to learning computers...as the field keeps one...no, several...steps ahead of me. *Sigh*  I'm an artist, an introvert who has learned to be an extravert when a need arises, dabble in computer graphics, write poetry, paint watercolours, make jewelry, and try whatever else strikes my fancy. 

I'm addicted to Sims, and I thank God my hubby is addicted to surfing the internet, because we can sit quite happily at our desks for hours.  We live on an island and the TV is crappy, so this fills an entertainment need.  I'm a control freak, so therefore I LOVE macrotastics.  Without it, I couldn't possibly control everyone, all of the time.  I have ALL of JM's hacks and couldn't do without them.  I'm an achiever, so it's a challenge for me to allow my Sims to be different - read: stupid, sloppy, underachiever, etc. - but I'm learning.

Awwwwh...you're so sweet.  Now...don't even consider my lips because I'm being so moooshy.     And while you're at it....what about a meter for romance?  Or is that pushing my luck? 

Love what ya do, JM!

Is it possible you got a corrupted download?  ...just a thought.  ...and you've probably already thought of it.  I downloaded DataGen v0.7.9 yesterday and it has all the necessary plugins, etc., and works fine.  I moved all the dodgy files to a temp folder without incident...at least the ones I chose to move.  Some are too valuable to get rid of...like Bathroom & Baby Controllers, and some of Inge Jones stuff.

I'm grateful to Brynne for pointing me in this direction.  This is a good program, even though so much of it is beyond my current abilities.

Oops! Forgot to mention that my version also says it cannot scan for missing textures or skins yet...but everything else seems to work...as far as I can tell.

I've been using DatGen. It's got a pretty decent file scanner. All my "gibberish" files were just that. Gibberish. They were all empty files, so I deleted them and haven't had any problems.

Please...what is DatGen, and where can I find it?

Here's a possible solution, if you haven't already tried it....

After installing my new graphics card, it took me two days of hair-pulling trial and error, flipping between a miniscule font I needed a magnifying glass to read, and something so large I couldn't close the program.  What I finally came up with gives me 1280 X 800 resolution with a font big enough to read comfortably.  I set my display to the highest resolution available, with a refresh rate high enough (mine is 75) so it doesn't rattle my eyeballs in my skull, then went into the Advanced Settings and set the font to 125% (120 DPI).   This works for me, with most programs...and my eyes need all the help possible.

I'll go back into stealth mode now....