My thanks to you Anach. My game had slowed to such a crawl playing was nearly impossible. After following your instructions game performance has improved 90 percent. The load time went from 10 to 15 minutes to 3 minutes, all of my CC is showing up and running fine and game play is on par with a fresh install without any CC at all. To be honest, I wasn't expecting much from this experiment, only to be astounded at the difference it has made. If you would be so good as to indulge my curiousity, I do have one question. When merging files is there any reason one could not group them according to website or creator? e.g., GOS.package or aikea_guinea.package. It seems to me further precision might come in handy should one run into a problem after a merge.