Yet you still managed to say it.

Oh I forgot:

Does this include a decent male skin? One that looks distinctly life-like and yet not bodybuilder status?

Ah so I'm not the only one getting the mass movement of Sims. To answer your question Pes, my game has a lot of custom Sims in it, and I've noticed the same ones move three times while playing the game. It also tended to happen after I switched main houses. 

As far as the food issue goes, this is most certainly not a realistic game, but it is realistic to have the options to cook any recipe you know and have the ingredients for regardless of the time of day. My sims don't tend to cook unless I'm raising a skill, but I appreciate being able to cook whatever I feel like clicking on.

Besides the moving problem, the new fix has caused me no problems, and I'm not crashing anymore. It must be a random act of madness or something.

The patcher app tells me I have no previous version of The Sims 3 installed. Is this because I have my Sims 3 saved to the (x86) programs files folder? Or is it because I manually transferred all the files from the computer upstairs to my laptop with out actually installing via the CD? Which for some reason, doesn't work anymore.

Can someone give me the files and tell me where to manually install them? Or should I forgo installing the patch at all since my game already crashes every few minutes?