I'm actually having a hard time with Sims DE to. I tried to install Hotdate,making magic and superstar and i can install all of them but then it jsut says re-install Sims De i re-install it i then tells me to unistall it i then do that and then it says all your expansions are not deleted =-p.....Go with Sims 2 i'm going to go get it.. you can buy it for pretty cheap now lol..