Selecting some traits renders others unselectable. Good and evil is one such combination; neat and slob is another obvious one I recall.

I have never encountered a hairy nectarine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peach#Nectarines

I believe by having a certain level of painting skill - level 4 or possibly 5.

AL introduced a new feature - you press Ctrl and Alt together and then it will let you put more things on the same wall, without using move objects. 

I believe because of Ayslhyn's prior posting history, notably, this:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11007.0.html

I noted the other day when I was playing that the option only seemed to come up when the toddler was on the ground - ie if I clicked while my sim was holding the toddler it didn't appear, but once he put the kid down it did.

Heh, that kind of thing is why I am no good with setting up those sorts of rules - I cannot stick to them.  I would have taken one look at him and arranged a tragic fire, or 'random' satellite drop. 

Squinge used to have something that let the 'take a spin' in a car action be extended.  It would pop up a box asking if you wanted the sims to come back yet or something. I am reasonably sure that their motives decayed while off-lot, but it's a long time since I had it installed. It was called something like 'cruise till you're done' if you wanted to look on the graveyard, but with the car thing it may not suit your theme. 

Heh, that tutorial is great:

Zazazu has a tutorial here with a method she's worked out:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11323.0.html

I am only able to choose three bonuses - the first is being able to choose a secondary aspiration, then three bonuses that someone with that asp as a first choice would have.  For example, when I chose a secondary aspiration of family, I could select up to the plead with social worker thing, but didn't get the twins 'bonus' that a Family sim would have. 

I have not chosen the grilled cheese aspiration as a secondary one yet though. I do have a sim whose LTA points I haven't spent yet, so I'll go see what happens..

ETA: Chose a secondary asp of grilled cheese, then was able to select bottomless stomach, slower bladder and finally paint grilled cheese - no conjuring. 

I gather that this is as intended - that the game updates BFFs on a cycle based on being best friends for a certain amount of time, and does not need an interaction to happen.

 JM has stated in his BFFs are for 12s hack thread in the Firing Range that he will add a check to stop the dead BFF thing.  http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,11252.0.html

When I choose 'view' there is a popup that shows the bugs they've collected - it's a bit like the photo album one from BV.

Since installing this, my sim has gained memories of becoming BFFs with her long-dead grandparents.

Yeah, I think so, I had a sim doing that earlier.  They seem to have new idling animations for the hobbies - my science sim was playing with a puzzle thing, and the fitness ones were doing leg stretches. 

I believe they stop playing when their fun maxes out.

I have heard sound from the violin.   I have always found the sound on instruments to be fussy about game speed - if i speed up or slow down the game once they start playing I do not hear the sound for the entirety of that time of playing.

 
It would be more dishonest for him to pretend that threads on the BBS have any hope of changing the company's policy. If you don't believe the numbers he's posted, fine, but his advice about the best way to make your dissatisfaction known makes sense to me.

Oh right, I was reading steps ahead of that.  Then type "cd\"  to get back to C: (no quotes) shorty. 
This site may help http://www.computerhope.com/cdhlp.htm

Type
cd c:\windows\system32

I don't think it's advisable to mess with the registry if you don't know how to use some simple DOS commands. 

I know someone else here had problems with the TJ visitor controller and the 'walk to..' thing. I do not know if it has since been updated.

I knew not of the Magic Wand tool, and cannot believe I hadn't thought of SimPE.     Will try now.

I had an issue with a family that got stuck on vacation - clicking on their house took me to the lot they were staying on, but it was in build mode. I had not messed with zoning cheats, so I do not know what caused it.
 I recovered them by summoning to another family and moving them to a new place.  However, I couldn't summon their cat, who was of course at home while they were on vacation.
The cat is now stuck in their old house, which has a dark green plumbob above, and says the family is still on vacation.  I can't bulldoze, move it out, or anything.  Any suggestions? I don't even care about the cat that much ( ) but it will be a bit annoying having that house like that forever.

This isn't intended to stop greetings spreading in the home hood.  It just restricts locals to appropriate greetings in vacation hoods, but your own sims can do whichever greetings they please.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

Google is your friend.