This has already been answered in other threads. LURK MOAR and SEARCH MOAR.

I doubt they have. There is a chance that something effed up during your install, during the download, or your computer is just a sad panda right now.

I have torrented many games over the years and there are definitely cases where I'll DL a version that is messed up for me but works for others. Sometimes I can get a fix by reading the comments on where I got the torrent.

Hopefully you can get it to work on your other computer. And yes, EA is a batch of fucking fail cookies.

Understandably, you misunderstood my post.

I was simply referring to the fact that I'm not going to post another link on how to do complete manual uninstall of the game, which would be easier than waiting for someone to post the file because even if someone did, it might not work anyway.

Don't ever say that I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't talk out of my ass like some. I have a good knowledge of computers and I actually use google on a regular basis when I don't understand something or when I've come across something I'm not familiar with.

And if completely uninstalling/reinstalling doesn't work, then you're probably fucked. Then again, you really can't complain about that if you're using an arr'ed copy.

Waiting for someone to post up the file you need could take much longer than just manually uninstalling the game completely, and even then it might not work. And I'm not going to sound like a broken record anymore by posting the same god damn thing a third time. So find it yourself. It's really the easiest thing in the world if you GOOGLE IT. I'll even go as far as to give you a hint: 'the sims 3 won't uninstall! Oh NOES!!1!!1oneone'

http://tinyurl.com/ksg6d2

Try going through all of that just to double check. I did everything it told me and my game was completely uninstalled after I was done, allowing me to happily reinstall. Make sure you delete EVERYTHING from your HD pertaining to the sims. (I actually left the stuff in My Documents for the game though and it still installed correctly. Shrug.)

AM will remove the horrid blur if you're using it. There is a standalone version here: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=343951

I also had to manually uninstall everything. I cleared the registry and followed all the instructions on the EA site and it did indeed work for me.

Here is the EA answer in case anyone wants it. It is a little more oriented to TS3 although I'm sure the link that AngerousAlex provided will also work.
http://tinyurl.com/lxonyg

I believe it was mentioned somewhere that it is 150K. I cannot find the exact post at the moment as my search skills fail me.

ETA: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,15643.msg448864.html#msg448864