I really hope someone can help me with this problem!

I finally got the Sims OFB to work by adding 2 more Gbs of RAM and it played beautifully for two weeks until suddenly on Friday it stopped working!

I put the disc in as usual and nothing! The title screen didn't pop up and the CD was spinning in the drive and then stopped! I checked everything over and over but I could find nothing wrong.

Eventually I looked in my Add/Remove folder to see if I added anything that could have caused problem with it and I saw "Hotfix for MDAC 2.53" had the Open For Business symbol in front of it! I was really confused and I tried to remove it and it will not remove!!!

It keeps saying that the 'file version check failed'. I removed ALL of the hotfixes and it still would not remove itself. I am lost and afraid that I will lose ALL of my Sims for a third time and have to start all over again!!!

I don't know how to remove something like that manually and I hate to clear my whole C drive to get the Sims to play again! I swear I am having so many problems with this game I could scream!!! Again I can not play my game!

Can anyone help me remove MDAC off of my system manually? I don't even know why it is there!

Thank you!

You can remove these hotfixes by going to control panel> Add or remove programs and then ticking the 'show updates' box at the top of the window. Before you try that, though, try this:
http://www.modthesims2.com/article.php?p=1110057

Thank you simsample!!! Deleting the cache files worked! I never would have thought of that!!! :D

Thank you so very much! *running off to play the Sims again!*

No problem, glad to help.