First, thanks to Pescado, your mods have made The Sims playable for years (Yak-Yak FTW!). I shelved Sims 3 til your mod made it playable, now I can again waste endless hours.

I too am having issues with my sims skipping work/school. It seems to only be families that I play regularly, and sacred status seems to have no effect. So one morning as the school bus arrived, I paused the game and Ctrl-clicked my way through these problem familes. When I did I noticed something interesting with the times. Each family showed a different start time for school under the occupation tab. One might say school starts in 2 hours, another 5 hours, one even said 17 hours, all of this at 8AM game time. So the reason my sims are skipping work/school is because their time is off. They think it is 6AM when it is 9AM. I have no idea why this is happening. If I unpause the game a few seconds, the start time catches up. However if work/school has already started they do not go. My work-around for this is at 6AM going to my problem households and running time for about 5 seconds. Once I do this each morning, they seem to go to work/school as scheduled.
So I am wondering if my Ctrl family switching is messing up their clocks. Is there any differencebetween Ctrl-click switching families and doing it from Change Households in edit town?

My second question has to do with relationships and story mode. None of my sims are developing romantic relationships. They develop friendships, but no romance. All of my romantic relationships have to be forced by me. I also have had no marriages occur in story mode. Is this situation unique to me?

Always using the latest Awesome version, vanilla except InformonStoryAction is true.