OK - I'm late to the party, but I went ahead and upgraded to Sims3 (and I LOVE my witch sim...).

Yeah, yeah, I know - Sims 3 has been out for a while and I finally caught up with everybody....

 

It's a bit confusing at times trying to figure out the new UI and how build-mode functions, but I'll survive.  The one expansion I absolutely LOVE, though, is Supernatural.  I'm having such a blast as a self-employed Alchemist-Witch!

Game Wiped Out, But Now Restored (Mostly...)

I had a bit of a hitch last week when I used a CAS! switching program and it wiped out my game.  I lost everything - my hoods, families, customized extra sims - all gone. 

Well, MOST of it has been restored due to my paranoia in backing up the majority of my customizations.  I still don't have my old hoods and their respective residents, but they can be rebuilt and restored over time.  The only truly sad part is now I have to find either of the witches again to get my witch sim back into the mix.  I got lucky and made contact almost instantly this last time, but I don't think I'll be able to repeat that scenario any time soon - darn it....

Not so frustrated anymore - I got a small paint set uploaded (finally!) - woohoo!

Angela at TSR is a godsend.  After several days of communication on the forums she was able to determine that the reason why I couldn't submit anything was that Internet Explorer 9 disagrees with TSR's new cloud setup.  She recommended I use Firefox.  I was hesitant at first, but once I figured out the new layout and got my bookmarks straightened out it was pretty smooth afterwards.  Within an hour of installing Firefox I was able to submit my set and work on submitting another set I had sitting on my hard drive.

Getting Very Frustrated With Not Being Able to Submit Anything to TSR for Sims2

All I want to do is upload a few things for other players to enjoy in their game as much as I do. I don't submit as much as others do - as a matter of fact, I only have 7 uploads total at this point. Lately, however, I put together 2 more sets that I'm eager to share yet I can't seem to get through the upload process. I fill out all the required areas, select the files that I want to upload, then... nothing. I can't progress to the uploads area to do the final sorting and organizing of my sets.