I didn't think my launcher was crashing, I mean it didn't seem like it. But oh well...thanks guys!!

Oh, and I'm downloading ZoneAlarm now. Thanks for the tip.

The Install Monkey doesn't do my Sims3Pack files...it automatically opens in the launcher instead.

I know I sound like an idiot who knows nothing about computers...but I don't care. Everytime I install the pack files, even when I was disconnected from the internet, it puts those xcpt[myname][date&time].txt & .mdmp files into my My Documents/Electronic Arts/Sims 3 folder. I hadn't even tried running the game yet or anything - so it hadn't crashed to put those there. This time, though, I moved them into a folder on my desktop, if anyone would like the exception info.

Sorry, maybe I'm just getting paranoid again, but I got my ass kicked (by my internet provider) for downloading True Blood through Vuze a month ago.

Ok, thanks!

New question though. (God, I feel like an idiot!)
I don't have another firewall besides the standard Windows one. I went to the Security Center in the control panel and opened the firewall settings - it says everything is being blocked except my exceptions. Nothing TS3 is on the list of exceptions, yet some how it still connects all the time. So...what now?

Ed: I'm not quite so paranoid now. I saw a post on here that you actually replied to, Motoki, and they copy & pasted what looked like the exact same files that I was referring to in my first post. So, as you said, they must just be crash logs or something...

So even though it had my serial number and everything...I'm just being paranoid?

No... I didn't know that. How can I run it otherwise, then?

Bash me all you want, I've read a lot of posts on SecuROM and all that and warnings to not install arr'd store items with a connection running. Yet some how, I've managed to let the launcher phone home. I could tell, because as soon as I tried to launch the game, it closed for no reason during the loading screen. I was about to quit anyway to delete all the cache files, so when I went to do that, I found two nice little files in there that weren't there before. One was a .txt file, and although I couldn't read a lot of the stuff in the file, I did manage to read ACCESS VIOLATION - and it had several of the specs on my computer listed as well. I would have copy and pasted it on here, but by that time I was scared shitless and deleted everything in the hopes that that might save me. I haven't tried running the game since.
So, anyone have any idea what I should do now, or what I should expect in the slightest?