I had to go through and redo DNA for my older Pleasantview since my previous post. I downloaded Pegasys' database and imported my sims, which made things a lot easier because I could see the parents' genetics and how they related to the children. I had to go through and do all the family ties manually, but Pegasys has really made some improvements that make it a lot easier. I had been intending to do this, but when I heard you could view genetics with it and import from SimPE, it spurred me into action. Between SimPE, I finally got things straightened out the best I could, and I backed up the neighborhood with the date and DNA in the folder name. I am getting to the third generation finally, and I want to see how the genes mix! I can't do that if everyone is basically the same as a first generation CAS sim.
Thanks for sharing your experience, hedgekat. Hopefully it will help shed some light on the situation and maybe someone (Pescado?) can figure out what the heck is going on.