Clean install meaning starting from stratch. Save all your saved games, Save your sims that you may have in cas that are your own (saved sims file), DC Cashe folder, downloads and mods if you have them. Delete the whole game manually and then to a complete clean install. This will also regenerate a new launcher. The way to generate a new launcher is to do a clean install. The launcher is in the base game. Once the base game is entered on a clean install you patch the base game to 1.67 than add all your ep's. When you do a clean install test the base game after patching first to make sure your launcher is ok before adding EP's. Then you can test each EP one at a time to make sure each one goes in ok. Than you can start added back your saves, downloads, mods etc. This way you can test your CC or mods to see if they are causing issue as you add them back.
This would be the link how to manually uninstall the game
http://help.ea.com/en/article/manually-uninstalling-the-sims-3/