Launcher works, but game does not start

So I installed the base game, Ambitions, Generations, Late Night, and University Life. All from this lovely site. To the best of my knowledge I have followed all the directions perfectly when I installed, such as installing Ambitions before Late Night, and the manual patch and ultimate fix, but I still have a problem. The launcher works perfectly, but if I select play, nothing happens. The curser has that little loading thing going on for a second, but nothing happens. Zip, none, nada. Nothing shows up on the task manager either. So then I uninstalled everything, then installed it again, making absolutely 100% sure I followed all the directions perfectly. But the game still won't launch, whether I do it from the base game launcher, or actually go into the Bin folder and double click TS3W. Running as administrator does nothing either. I moved the crack in the bin folder on the base game at least a hundred times, but still nothing.
Also, I searched all through this forum to see if anybody had the same problem, did what the replies suggested, but nothing has worked for me. I have spent around 8 hours yesterday and today reinstalling the games, and I never even got to play them. Seems like the only time The Sims will work for me is if I play the base game. Everything else is an to me.
Right now I just finished updating the manual patch thingy. I am going to download the ultimate fix for the millionth time and see what happens.
Any help would be appreciated! I just hope I don't have to do any more installing and reinstalling because I will probably have to pull all my hair out.