I'm sorry, I should have mentioned I did indeed check those sites. Maybe it only recently went down and it'll show up at one of them eventually. Thanks for the reply.

Maxis Dreams (http://maxistraum.de/index-eng.htm) seems to have gone belly up. I have no idea if this is a recent event or not as I haven't been there in a while. Does anyone know if the content is available elsewhere? I done a tried to get google to tell me, but it refuses.

I have had some trouble with the sims on windows 7. I had obscene amounts of CC though, and since cutting it to less than 3GBs sim life is peachy again. Other games seem to have no trouble.

Overall I am a fan of Windows 7.  No crashes, no weirdness. My biggest complaint would be the random new locations of things, for example command prompt is now located under accesories in the start menu.