>IMO, it never worked right in the home environment either. I installed it on my kids PC and they hated it. It wouldn't run half their games. We were back tin Win98SE in a few days.

Well, talking about this: Does someone knows how to make The Sims run on Windows XP. It worked on Win ME, and when I got tired of it (at home, too) and upgraded, my daughter (6 years old) complained that it didn't work anymore.

I searched the web but found nothing about this (I'm not a gamer, so maybe I don't know where to look for).

Any help would save my reputation as a know-it-all father. 8-)