haha read me like an open book. yeah i have vista.
and one more thing
i don't understand how to do either of thoes.
could you eloborate.
i thought i did download my game to c:/games ?
and how do i do what ever with the uac  ? i turned it off and i still see know changes in the folders.?

just trying better undestand how my games works,
i have the install monkey and it works just dandy, and i see most of the things i actually download in my game but when i try to go invistigate where my downloaded files go,,,welll thats the thing i can't find them. there no in my programs or documents.there only in the same folders iorignally saved them in on my desktop,
so whats the deal with al that?
is it suspose to be like that, if so whats the point of the folders created in progams mod>packages ?

(alright i figured it out,)

my computer would not allow me to uinstall the program, i kept getting the same error message. have no fear anyone else with this problem can go to http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html
and download there more advanced uninstaller. works like a charm

the error message says this:
>setup New/ setup.cpp (140)
PAPP:
PGUID:
$15.0.0498
@windows vista service pack 1 (6001)
IE Version: 8.0.6001.18783


ok so wtf does that mean.

alright thank you, cross your fingers for me too 

yeah i have a vista (such a curse)
i am adminstrator and have tried uac and even the oter one i stilll have problems with that one file and the program not working at all .

so my best bet is to just re-install?

ok before anyone states this, yes i have already asked the same thing on modthesims.info and other sites who i thought might beable to help me, so im crossing my fingers hoping someone on this site might know an answer to this..

ok i set up everything right and read all the dang directions,

my issue is..
when i download delphys help monkey i have an error message pop saying therewas an error coping file " d3dx9_31.dll file "
i have tried to skip coping this and go on and still the crap don't work, so im asuming this is very important file, not to mention that i don't think i can get awsome mod tho work with out this file.
when i did skip the file and tried to continue on, i clicked for my cc to install into sims 3 and it says it can't find root folder.

ok so there it is,
please help,,,,    thank you

please