My luck is better than I thought.

[silvainsims]

My computer's working again, I managed to fix it and I got a backup of everything made.... except to fix my computer, I ended up having to essentially wipe just about everything after I made that backup. So it might be a few days before I'm able to play sims again, as I don't know exactly what the backup saved and what it didn't.

Nonetheless, I feel very, very proud of myself for working out how to fix it, even if I did end up spending most of the night doing so.