I recently had to reformat my hard drive, which meant a complete reinstall of the Sims. Fortunately I was able to save my downloads and my neighborhoods, but since starting the game up again none of my Sims can use the phone. If someone calls them it's fine, but if they try to call anyone they jump ...

Clean install. What is it? It's what you should be doing when moving from one major release to the next. Why? Because I said so. Ok, so that's not a valid reason. However, I've often said, "if you just do things my way, there won't be any problems." I digress, though...Back to clean instal...

Few questions...My specs:Yes I'm running Sims2 on a laptop. I have NL, Pets, OFB, Seasons, & Glamour Life OS: WinXP SP2 GatewayMX6447 AMD 64 Turion MobileTechnology-MK36Graphics card)ATI Radeon® Xpress 1150 Graphics 1.60 GHz, 896 MB RAM I have 1.20 Gigs of CC (yes, I'm working on cutting it down, &...