Seasons Started Crashing Today

Seasons has been running fine. Started crashing today. Have had some problems before with SIMS, but dropping groups cache, stopping background programs, etc. normally takes care of it.

Here is what log shows (Sims2Exception):
Exception time: 04/05/2007, at 18:27:55.
Exception code: 0xC0000005 (-1073741819) ACCESS_VIOLATION.
Current thread ID: 284 (0x0000011c).
Version information:
Application/module path: F:\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Seasons\TSBin\Sims2EP5.exe
Application/module version name: The Sims 2 EP5
Application/module version: 1.7.0.151
System version: Windows NT 5.0
System memory: 640 Megabytes total, 404 Megabytes free.
Application/module configuration: ReleaseSRT

Extra Exception Data:

Shutdown: 0
HostName: CX31143-C
MemoryUsage: 31708K
Neighborhood Name:
Neighborhood Prefix:
Lot Name:
Extra Exception Data End:

Exception module: .
Exception address: 0x00000000. Section:Offset: 0x00:0x00000000.

Registers
EAX: c0000008
EBX: 001fc6c8
ECX: 14010101
EDX: ffffffff
ESI: 001d5bf0
EDI: 0012ea30
CS:EIP: 001b:00000000
SS:ESP: 0023:0012ea08 EBP:0012ea38
DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:0038 GS:0000
Flags: 00010202

Loaded Modules
Address Size Module Path
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0x00400000 16990208 Sims2EP5.exe F:\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Seasons\TSBin\Sims2EP5.exe
0x77f80000 507904 ntdll.dll C:\WIN\system32\ntdll.dll
0x7c570000 737280 KERNEL32.dll C:\WIN\system32\KERNEL32.dll
0x7c2d0000 413696 ADVAPI32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
0x77d30000 454656 RPCRT4.dll C:\WIN\system32\RPCRT4.dll
0x77f40000 245760 GDI32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\GDI32.DLL
0x77e10000 389120 USER32.dll C:\WIN\system32\USER32.dll
0x77820000 28672 VERSION.DLL C:\WIN\system32\VERSION.DLL
0x759b0000 24576 LZ32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\LZ32.DLL
0x00230000 1728512 D3D9.DLL C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL
0x003e0000 20480 d3d8thk.dll C:\WIN\system32\d3d8thk.dll
0x78000000 282624 msvcrt.dll C:\WIN\system32\msvcrt.dll
0x77570000 196608 WINMM.dll C:\WIN\system32\WINMM.dll
0x75e60000 106496 IMM32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\IMM32.DLL
0x6a8f0000 131072 MSVFW32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\MSVFW32.DLL
0x7cf30000 2383872 SHELL32.dll C:\WIN\system32\SHELL32.dll
0x70a70000 417792 SHLWAPI.dll C:\WIN\system32\SHLWAPI.dll
0x71710000 540672 COMCTL32.dll C:\WIN\system32\COMCTL32.dll
0x74870000 90112 AVIFIL32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\AVIFIL32.DLL
0x7ce20000 978944 ole32.dll C:\WIN\system32\ole32.dll
0x77410000 77824 MSACM32.dll C:\WIN\system32\MSACM32.dll
0x779b0000 634880 OLEAUT32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\OLEAUT32.DLL
0x75030000 81920 WS2_32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\WS2_32.DLL
0x75020000 32768 WS2HELP.DLL C:\WIN\system32\WS2HELP.DLL
0x51080000 380928 DSOUND.DLL C:\WIN\system32\DSOUND.DLL
0x66700000 1302528 ~df394b.tmp C:\DOCUME~1\Laura\LOCALS~1\Temp\~e5.0001.dir.0001\~df394b.tmp
0x60000000 311296 MSCTF.dll C:\WIN\system32\MSCTF.dll
0x72a00000 184320 DbgHelp.dll C:\WIN\system32\DbgHelp.dll
0x690a0000 45056 psapi.dll C:\WIN\system32\psapi.dll
0x774e0000 212992 rasapi32.dll C:\WIN\system32\rasapi32.dll
0x774c0000 69632 rasman.dll C:\WIN\system32\rasman.dll
0x77530000 139264 TAPI32.dll C:\WIN\system32\TAPI32.dll
0x77560000 32768 wdmaud.drv C:\WIN\system32\wdmaud.drv
0x77400000 32768 msacm32.drv C:\WIN\system32\msacm32.drv
0x5ef80000 16384 KsUser.dll C:\WIN\system32\KsUser.dll
0x76930000 176128 WINTRUST.dll C:\WIN\system32\WINTRUST.dll
0x7c740000 573440 CRYPT32.dll C:\WIN\system32\CRYPT32.dll
0x77430000 69632 MSASN1.dll C:\WIN\system32\MSASN1.dll
0x77920000 143360 IMAGEHLP.dll C:\WIN\system32\IMAGEHLP.dll
0x7ca00000 143360 rsaenh.dll C:\WIN\system32\rsaenh.dll
0x7c0f0000 409600 USERENV.dll C:\WIN\system32\USERENV.dll
0x7c340000 61440 secur32.dll C:\WIN\system32\secur32.dll
0x7cdc0000 327680 netapi32.dll C:\WIN\system32\netapi32.dll
0x77bf0000 69632 NTDSAPI.dll C:\WIN\system32\NTDSAPI.dll
0x77980000 147456 DNSAPI.DLL C:\WIN\system32\DNSAPI.DLL
0x75050000 32768 WSOCK32.dll C:\WIN\system32\WSOCK32.dll
0x77950000 176128 WLDAP32.DLL C:\WIN\system32\WLDAP32.DLL
0x751c0000 24576 NETRAP.dll C:\WIN\system32\NETRAP.dll
0x75150000 65536 SAMLIB.dll C:\WIN\system32\SAMLIB.dll
0x7c700000 77824 cryptnet.dll C:\WIN\system32\cryptnet.dll
0x75ab0000 20480 SensApi.dll C:\WIN\system32\SensApi.dll
0x4ff90000 344064 WINHTTP.dll C:\WIN\system32\WINHTTP.dll
0x7c950000 585728 CLBCATQ.DLL C:\WIN\system32\CLBCATQ.DLL
0x04990000 1789952 dxdiagn.dll C:\WIN\system32\dxdiagn.dll
0x65a60000 40960 wbemprox.dll C:\WIN\System32\wbem\wbemprox.dll
0x65c20000 708608 wbemcomn.dll C:\WIN\System32\wbem\wbemcomn.dll
0x65a30000 40960 wbemsvc.dll C:\WIN\System32\wbem\wbemsvc.dll
0x700e0000 155648 fastprox.dll C:\WIN\System32\wbem\fastprox.dll
0x51000000 299008 ddraw.dll C:\WIN\system32\ddraw.dll
0x728a0000 24576 DCIMAN32.dll C:\WIN\system32\DCIMAN32.dll
0x72d90000 471040 D3DIM.DLL C:\WIN\system32\D3DIM.DLL

Call stack:
(Minimal info present due to outdated or absent DbgHelp.dll).
0x0000:0x00000000 .
0x0001:0x00045615 C:\WIN\system32\USER32.dll ChangeDisplaySettingsExA() + 115
0x0001:0x00031be8 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 34184
0x0001:0x00031c90 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 34352
0x0001:0x0003ac4c C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 71148
0x0001:0x0003aff1 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 72081
0x0001:0x0003b3c5 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 73061
0x0001:0x00041765 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL DebugSetLevel() + 98565
0x0001:0x00080bd9 C:\WIN\system32\D3D9.DLL Direct3DShaderValidatorCreate9() + 139513
0x0001:0x00263701 F:\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Seasons\TSBin\Sims2EP5.exe GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 2446674
0x0000:0x00000000 .
0x0001:0x00243160 F:\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 Seasons\TSBin\Sims2EP5.exe GZDllGetGZCOMDirector() + 2314161
0x0000:0x00000000 .

Stack data: (ESP is 0x0012ea08)
0x0012e888 64e71200 6086a603 6ce71200 607ea603 8a2cfb77 00007402 587ea603 607ea603
0x0012e8a8 48e71200 88067402 00001200 3800fb77 2300f877 2300ffff 30ea1200 f05b1d00
0x0012e8c8 c8c61f00 ffffffff 01010114 080000c0 00ea1200 3c1cf977 1b007000 02020000
0x0012e8e8 b0e91200 23000000 607ea603 18000000 00000000 6086a603 6086a603 ece71200
0x0012e908 647efb77 5016f877 ffffffff fce71200 4e61da00 00007402 00000000 00007402
0x0012e928 03000000 00007402 03000000 0061da00 d4e71200 01000000 94e81200 01e71200
0x0012e948 6086a603 7ce71200 607ea603 3ce81200 647efb77 7816f877 ffffffff 4ce81200
0x0012e968 df60da00 00007402 00000000 e460da00 4800a203 607ea603 b8e81200 4800a203
0x0012e988 24e81200 4c3eda00 94e81200 4c3eda00 50c72001 ffffffff e460da00 58344000
0x0012e9a8 607ea603 501ca403 dc82e500 01000000 6f466500 fe000400 00040003 4800a203
0x0012e9c8 501ca403 7474631b 501ca403 7474631b 607ea603 6086a603 1886a603 fe000400
0x0012e9e8 c0e81200 58500d01 ffffffff 4800a203 20000000 5f2f6500 7474631b 00000000
0x0012ea08 1566e577 30ea1200 f05b1d00 00000000 04000000 00000000 a265e577 d4c61f00
0x0012ea28 0c000d00 d4c61f00 18000a02 00ecfd7f 18eb1200 e82b2600 d4c61f00 78ea1200
0x0012ea48 00000000 04000000 00000000 40521f00 58eb1200 16000000 18000000 ffffffff
0x0012ea68 20000000 14000000 d0070000 00000000 4e56345f 44495350 00521f00 b4eb1200
0x0012ea88 1cae2600 16000000 d8801400 5047e177 01040104 7c000000 20005c00 00000000
0x0012eaa8 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 1d75e177 00000000
0x0012eac8 00000000 1c000000 f0ea1200 68eb1200 af1bf977 e4ea1200 20000000 00040000
0x0012eae8 00030000 00000000 3c000000 d8751400 1a000000 16000000 2ceb1200 cc842500
0x0012eb08 55782500 042e1400 1a000000 40bb0000 40eb1200 902c2600 c8c61f00 d4c61f00
0x0012eb28 00040000 00030000 20000000 3c000000 00000000 b4eb1200 94eb1200 4cbc2600
0x0012eb48 58eb1200 bc521f00 01000000 40521f00 c8c61f00 00040000 00030000 16000000
0x0012eb68 3c000000 00000000 27087688 d8801400 00000000 00000000 16000000 01000000
Instruction data is not readable -- Unable to get the EIP.

Any suggestions welcome (other than uninstall /reinstall everything LOL)