ok its working now.  Thanks a million.  BlueSoup, you are WAY more awesome than me

ok i got it.  Quick question though.  If I save it to a portable flash drive and transferr it to my downstairs computer that doesn't have the internet, will it still work?

Its the Triplets and Quads hack.  Its only like 10KB so it should be small enough.

ummmm.... i think its WinRAR

Well, I got the Age Duration hack, and it did work when I extracted it, so it'll probly work in the game now, but the one that won't let me extract is the Triplets & Quads hack.

I tried but it says that it is in an unrecognized format or damaged

I've downloaded two hacks and I can't get them to work in my game.  I put them in the My Documents/EA Games/The Sims2/ Downloads folder but they still aren't showing up.  Can somebody help me?