Thanks for the answers.  I'll look up how to fix the store stuff problems.

As an addenda I'm pretty noobish regarding all this decrapify, compressing and anything more complicated than just installing the framework and putting the mod files in the packages folder, CC stuff is working properly.  I wonder if I should get into this as my game seems to freeze for a few seconds when my sims are abroad.  The game will freeze for 5~45 secs and then resume.

I'm installing stuff using 3viewer because I never got into the whole "install lots here, clothes there and worlds over here...yadda yadda" I need something as fool proof as possible as I'm no longer into this game like I was before.  Every single expansion breaks my household and I have to start over again.

I have a problem getting the spellbook to appear in my game.  I got the 26th Update and installed it via 3viewer but while I got the Gothique library available as a lot named "2 Library", the spellbook is not available to purchase.  My household currently holds about 180K simoleons but the spellbook does not appear under hobbies and skills.  Am I doing something wrong in my game?  I have every EP and Stuff Pack installed (game is at version 1.24).  In that same vein, store files don't seem to appear consistently in the game.  Some things do appear and some others don't.  I do remember installing every single Store Update and set at once with 3viewer and I think I've read here that one should install smaller groups of sim3packs at a time instead of all at once.

I also have a mod question: is the woohooer compatible with awesome mod?