SIMS 3: Dark green motives and face boxes, along with slow zooming, etc.

!!!!FIX FOR GREEN BOX PROBLEM!!! 

Okay so this happened to me yesterday. I saved my game while everything was working and then reloaded to my whole household being unuseable with green boxes instead of their pictures. Then wouldn't stop doing their current action and I couldn't change between sims.  

I never usually use mods and wasn't used to it. I followed the advice above about installing ErrorTrap as I had tried everything else. I needed a little extra guidance since I never use mods so I used the two links below.

First I followed this guide to set up all the folders: http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Game_Help:Installing_Sims_3_Package_Files/Setup_and_Files

Then I installed the ErrorTrap package from this site: http://nraas.wikispaces.com/ErrorTrap

I went in to my game and you'll know it's working if the intro song doesn't come up (you install it when following the first link).

When I went to my household(4 adult sims and 1 baby sim) the faces had reappeared in the icons but I still couldn't select them. I tried to enter the cheat 'resetsim' and when the area to enter text popped up, four sims completely disappeared.

So I exited to edit town and selected not to save (make sure you don't select save). I then chose to 'switch active household'. Then I re-selected my 'broken' household and began playing. When I reentered the house, each sim was outside the front door and playable again!! The game is completely fixed!(Remember not to save anywhere along the way until you make a backup save when your household is actually working again)

So thanks so much to the suggestion above to download errortrap, it worked really well.

Note: I had made a copy of the family(without house) before all of this just in-case it destroyed them all completely.