Just on a positive side, my EA App wanted to update today, and I allowed it to, which I had to anyway, and all went well. No hic-cups.
So fingers crossed, I'm still not having any issues.
My sims3 disappears from my collection now and then, but when I go off line it shows up in the bit where if I wanted to play it, it should be.
I've not played TS3 since because I don't want to find the lost store item issues, but then I haven't played for about a year anyway.
So, TS4 seems to be going well.
I hope I haven't just jinxed myself!