After reading the moaning, gnashing of teeth and otherwise bitterness towards EA on this situation, I find myself in the admittedly awkward position of having to point something out: who told us to buy Lion the first week and install it, not knowing if it would work or not? Some glitches are to be expected for "early adopters" which is what we are by installing it during the first week.
So here's a constructive suggestion so that you can get back to your Sim-loving lives.
1. You can do this with either a new drive you buy or the drive you already use for Time Machine, if you have room on it. If you're buying a new drive, partition off a portion of it about 50GB larger than your current drive usage for your restore and you can call the other partition "backup" or whatever you like.
2. Restore your Time Machine archive to the point before where you installed Lion (to your external drive, not to where you have Lion installed, as it will torch the drive).
3. (For your sanity) rename the HD where you restored your previous OS to something like Snow Leopard or whatever OS you were running on.
4. Go to control panels and start from your newly-restored OS and play Sims to your heart's content.
5. Optional = you can move documents you created since the switch from your Lion drive into your Snow Leopard drive, or just leave them on the Lion side and boot into Lion whenever you want to work on them.
It's not a perfect solution, but it will get you back into playing SIms until a "real" solution is found.
Everybody have fun ;)
SQ
