I tried this thing and it ate my soundcard's controls.  I ended up doing a System Restore because I didn't trust what else it ate.  It doesn't give a log of what it does.  If you use it, make sure you have a good System Restore in place first.

I've had this crash with Castaway.  I do not have Norton and I turn off my antivirus when I play.  I still get the same crash.  I barely run any processes unless absolutely necessary.  I don't think that's quite where the problem is coming from. 

There could be a few other things doing this.  Paging file too small, video or soundcard acceleration too high, some codec or other file conflict.  I've already had crashes in FreeTime because of Divx's software.  If a sim turns on the tv, Divx loads up and bang, looping audio and a crash out.  I really haven't had the time to do anything about this yet, so I just get rid of the tv's on the lots for now.

That's interesting how that got misinterpreted.  This is the only time I'm going to clarify this and why I was fighting.

When you let a modder run wild and hide code inside your files without your knowlege, they can ultimately hide malicious code.  The malicious code could lead to severe game damage.  That is what I was talking about, NOT damage to your pc, although, you never know.  By allowing someone like Numenor or any other modder to do what he did, a line must be drawn.  How would any of you like to wake up one day to find half your sims were deleted?  Your game won't load right?  You play and find half your neighborhoods trashed?  Or even, everything you make isn't working correctly and you can't trace why.  This is a very real possibility when you allow one modder to go wild and deliberately hide code from other modders inside every single creator's files in the entire community.  What Numenor did was benign.  It was just some text words.  But if a line is not drawn to stop further behavior, there is no telling what could happen the next time.  And that is why I was fighting.  On top of that, I do not believe it is anyone's right to be inserting words into every single creator's files in the entire community, especially without that being clearly stated in plain words for everyone to understand, not hidden inside some BS legalease.  Either state, "I am inserting words inside your files that say I made your files." or don't do it.  I wouldn't have cared what the words said, he could have inserted an ad for McDonalds and I would still be upset about it.  What goes into a file is up to the creator of the file and no one else.  And it is not up to anyone else to force that on us.

Delphy is another matter.  He is not a creator, never has been, never will be.  And I came down on him for posing.  He cannot speak for creators since he is not one and has no knowlege in this area.  And he doesn't belong having his site logo inserted into everyone's files without their knowlege. 

I'm a freedom fighter and I was fighting for the rights of creators.  I don't really care who agrees with me or disagrees with me.  But I will bow down to no posers and I will not have my files compromised without my consent.  And anyone who really looks at the way they did it will understand how hidden it was.  It was designed so that you wouldn't see it unless you were looking for it.  That is what makes what they did so dangerous.  I do believe that was the first step before doing something far worse.  And I would hope that the creators of the community would understand this.

As far as the survey over at VS went.  I didn't even look at it.  I have no idea of what was inside of it.  All I do know is that it was for a free PS2 demo disc for TS2.  And Rentechd really is giving them away.  If she inserted other questions in the survey, I had no knowlege of that.         

There is one bad download that causes this, in fact, it causes all the new interactions like slow dancing to be completely hosed.  I think I traced it to an old teleporter file.  It's the one that looks like a Stargate, but it's not from Xanathon, I think the file starts with ASC or ACS.  Once I got rid of it, the game was normal again.  So if anyone is getting this problem, look for teleporter files in your downloads, I think the files overwrite the new greeting code.

I don't have NL yet, but I did read on one of the boards that if your hacks aren't working, take them out of the subfolders and put them directly into downloads and that should fix the ones that do work.  For some reason, hacks in subfolders aren't working for some people now with NL.