OK so I'm 1 of those players who went ahead & got EVERY EP & SP that EA made for TS2.  For quite some time now Mr. Humble (he came with Free Time) instead of "skin" over his face it's WHITE with what looks like a binary code.....also the guy who checks Sims in at the front desk in hotels has the same binary code.....this really RUINS pics of MY Sims signing in ya know?  And Mr. Humble's face is just annoying the snot out of me.  Soooo since I've got THAT issue + somehow I accidentally deleted or over-wrote a MAXIS light....& then I accedentally deleted a MAXIS wall while in Home-Crafter.....WUPSIE.....but I may as well just do a COMPLETE uninstall/reinstall.  THIS is going to take......a WHILE.  To give you an idea of how long; when I got all my TS2 games in their cases on my lap the top of the stack was to my chin......and I even put the stack on the floor & put my foot next to it so I'd have a "standing refference" or at least as close as you're going to get from ME. ;) 

So I backed up ALL IMPORTANT folders; I've got some CC that is from sites that are no longer up & running A.K.A. gone forever except on mine & anyone else who still has this stuff, I've got some Sims that oddly enough.....I'm rather "attached to".

I so miss uploading lots.  I still build mind you.....but only for ME.  I uploaded my last lot & then shortly thereafter (so nobody needs to worry that anything will happen to THEIR game by downloading any of my lots) I must have deleted that MAXIS light OR I downloaded something that overwrote it.....so I did not continue to upload LOTS OR PETS so as to avoid doing anything to anyone's game......but I miss uploading lots.  And I miss the "challenge" of making MAXIS "look good".

Sooo here goes nothing.........

{If anyone else needs to do this.....remember to back-up your downloads, neighborhoods (this saves your Sims) & if you're partial to any lots or Sims you've created then you'll want to back up your "Packaged Lots" & "Packaged Sims" folders & put them somewhere ELSE that they won't be effected.  THEN when you've re-installed ALL your CD's you move your saved folders into the newly created EA folder & have them over-write & your game will be as it was before.)}