Thanks so much for sharing this.  I was starting to really hate the EAxis townies in Sunset Valley - too many fug faces and fat genes.  Plus, I love "Harrison Ford" and "Rachel Bommshel", lol.     Great work.

The funny thing is, he's an athlete and all of his co-workers, including his boss, are men.   

A romance mod, if possible, for TS3 would be awesome.  So far as I can tell, a lot of the romantic and jealousy actions are either borked or just plain fail.

What is up with the "accuse of cheating" option?  Last night, I was playing with a sim on a community lot, and I zoomed away for a minute and, when I came back, she had a "betrayed!" moodlet about how much it sucked to be cheated on.  Since her husband was at work, and didn't have any romantic interests besides her, I thought it was kind of weird.  That's when I noticed her pre-marriage romantic interest, who she still had a heart with (despite having asked him about 8,000 times to just be friends) sitting a few feet away on the park bench reading a newspaper.  I thought, maybe it was him flirting with someone else...?

So, I took my sim home and, when she was conversing with her husband, I noticed the "accuse of cheating" option pop up.  I was confused because he doesn't even like his co-workers, but I had her accuse him of cheating just for the lulz.  Fighting and divorce ensued.  Just to make sure, though, I had her visit the pre-marriage romantic interest, and what popped up in the conversation tree but "accuse of cheating!"  WTF.  When one sim "cheats" on you, you can accuse all of your love objects of being cheaters?  How will I ever know who the culprit is?!

And how stupid is it to have a married sim be pissed that your discarded love interest from eons ago is flirting with someone else (if that was the case)?  Or how weird is it that your sim's spouse can cheat on you...at work?  Did they both cheat on her, I guess?  God, I miss memories.

Really?  I thought Vista did.  Oh well, then I have no idea why it wouldn't work.

What SP do you have installed with Vista?  I read the readme that came with my iso, but it didn't say anything about not being compatible with Vista 64.  BUT, make sure you have SP1 with Vista.  That's what the game was made to work with, and that's what the readme specifically referenced. If you have SP2 or SP3, that could be what's causing the problems.  Maybe?  I'm shit with troubleshooting; and, if it's not the SP issue, I really don't know what could be the problem.  You may have gotten a version that's not compatible with Vista 64 - if that's even possible.

If it helps, I downloaded my copy from Netload; that's the one that is compatible with Vista 64 for me.

That's strange.  I have Vista 64-bit, and it works fine on my computer.  I've been playing for the last two days straight, no crashes even.   I didn't get a compatibility message when I tried to install it, though.  Did the pop-up specifically mention Vista 64-bit?

ETA: Edited, because I didn't see literatebse's answer before I posted.

Sadly, the fact that it's hard to tell if this game is just a release candidate or is, in fact, the real deal - that does not bode well, I think, for the critical and/or commercial success of the game.  Don't get me wrong, it's an okay game, to be sure.  But, it's kind of a one trick pony as it is.  There's about, what, a handful of items in the object catalog; only 20 something hairstyles; various annoying behaviors...and no customization allowed, except through EA's shitty, overpriced Sim Store (which is basically a bunch of TS2 object imports)?  I kept thinking, while I was playing, oh this game could be so awesome if there could be meshes and mods, but, no.  I know that without CC I'm going to get bored of this game after a few sim generations (after I've seen all the game has to offer), and then it'll back to my overly hacked, historical themed 'hoods in TS2.

And for anyone having trouble with the torrents, have you tried the rapidshare and netload download options?  After I hit a 24.6% wall, I switched to downloading the 400mb pieces on netload, and I got the game within a few hours.