My game is working again!  Thanks for the help but I still don't know what happened.  I retried installing AL again today and it installed and the game loaded with my CC.  It's a mystery but I'm glad it's over.

I just looked in my sims 2 folder and there is one .cache file called Groups.cache.  Should there be more?

I only uninstalled AL.  I lent some of my older EPs to my neighbor so I couldn't uninstall all of them.

No, I wasn't using anything to avoid suckyrom.  Just the normal game and lots of CC.

I have all EPs and the Family Fun and Celebration stuff packs.  Every time my game loads it gets to the Making A Little Bit of Magic part of the AL loading screen and I get a pop-up that says, "The application has crashed.  The application will now terminate."  First, I took out all my CC and tried again.  Same problem.  Then I uninstalled AL and when I tried to reinstall it, my computer wouldn't load the disk. 

Does anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?

Thanks for the help.  Alas, it was a custom neighborhood and I had no backup.

Is it possible to do so?  I deleted the wrong neighborhood by mistake and I was wondering if there was any way to resurrect a neighborhood with SimPE or something.