Well, I still couldn't get it to not give me the error messages, but nothing seems to be messed up.
The point of the exercise was to be able to safely get my Springfield onto my iPod so I could get into the iTunes store and finally use up the $79 in iTunes credit that's been sitting there for the last several years - ever since I put 'iTunes Gift Card' on my Christmas wish list. I expected maybe $10 or $20 dollars worth at most and wound up with $80! At the time all I wanted to buy was the expansion packs for _The Creeps_, which became my go-to game for years. Such a long time in fact that by the time I got bored with _The Creeps_ my iPod was so out of date that nothing else I considered buying would run on the thing. (Plus my vision has gotten so bad that focusing on it for any length of time gives me a splitting headache.)
I'm back on my Nexus 7 with enough donuts to make some reasonable Premium purchases - so I did! I only had 4 kids (just got Martin yesterday) so I bought Jimbo, Sherri & Terri, and Kearney to ramp up my Trick-or-Treating. But most importantly I bought the Ray Gun and shot down the blasted flying saucer that was tweedeling across my screen every couple of minutes!
Thanks all for the help and Happy Tree House of Horroring to you.