The mod should have a chance of the smoking sim burning to death, due to falling asleep in bed with a lit death stick (and possibly burning not only the bed, but the entire house down!).  What about second hand smoke causing nearby sims (especially family members who breathe second hand smoke all the time) to get ill?  And stinky ash trays that need to be dumped into the trash on a regular basis.

Thanks for your replies everyone.  I'll let her know what you said.  I just wanted to double check with those in the know before I did anything, since I haven't worked with Double Deluxe before.  I believe in the 'better safe than sorry' way of doing things.

I looked the forum over (and did searches) and didn't see any threads pertaining to this.  If there is any with a solution that I didn't find, please just beat me with a wet noodle & point me in the right direction and I will go quietly......

I have a friend who currently has just Sims 2 installed.  She went out & got Double Deluxe and University and has asked me to help her get it installed right.  I know that Double Deluxe (base, Nightlife, Celebrations combo) has SecuROM on it, so I've warned her about it.  And I know what do do about it.  I also know to backup game files to save CC, sims, etc. (I'm not a noob to Sims 2 & installing/reinstalling; that's why my friend asked me for help.)

My questions arise from the combination of stuff she has.  I know that usually Univeristy gets installed before Nightlife, but I'm not sure if she has to uninstall the base game before installing Double Deluxe.  Will Double Deluxe install just Nightlife & Celebrations if the base game is already installed (or base game & University)?  Or does she have to unintall the base game & then install Double Deluxe?  If the second is the answer, won't it screw up the game when she installs University after Double Deluxe?

I'd just have her torrent Nightlife & Celebrations, but she is a relative newbie and doesn't seem the kind who'd want pirated copies.  Hell, a year ago, I wouldn't have wanted pirated copies (one of EA's 'honest' customers).  But EA's behavior towards customers has changed my mind and I've arrred everything that they put SuckRom on.  She's such a noob to Sims 2 (a Sims 1 addict that's decided just recently to move up to 2) that she's still working on getting the basics down on how to play, get CC into her game, and learn of things like Clean Installer and some useful mods/hacks.  I'll be explaining things to her about the sims community, pay vs. free, EA's crappiness, etc. after she's no longer feeling quite so inundated.

Anyway, the possible paths I see are these: 1) keep base game installed, add University, then add Nightlife & Celebrations from Double Delluxe, 2) uninstall base game, install Double Deluxe and then install University, or 3) something else that you guys & gals come up with.  Which should she do?  Thanks for any help you can give.