I think mine is probably me screwing up with the templates, or remembering things wrong. I don't have all of them, which I suppose I would if I had that issue as well =)

On a side note, AppData is such a pain. I play another game where the save files are kept there, and trying to get non-computer-savvy people to find it can be... interesting.

Can Sims be banned by specific name (i.e. Melody Tinker)? I don't want to get rid of all playables or all townies, just Melody and that one townie teen.

Melody Tinker is a playable sim. The sim must be on the lot to be able to use the "specific name" sim. I don't know if it is permanent for that lot or not.

Ninja'd.

Yeah, there's a tab for Specific Sim that when clicked, shows the names of everyone currently on-lot, and any of them can be banished. I don't know if it's a permanent ban for sims banished in this way either. Might have to do it each time you travel back and forth. Should be good for the duration of that particular visit, though.

I know there's a glitch with graves being moved to the wrong lot, but it has never happened to me. Do I understand correctly that the lot with the lowest number is the lot the grave automatically tries to move it to? So that if I were (say) making a shareable downtown with a graveyard in it, the graveyard should be the first lot I make, so that even people who don't know about the glitch and don't take precautions against it don't run into it?

Or do I have hold of entirely the wrong end of the stick?