Another problem I'm running into now is that occasionally my game freezes into a black screen with two rectangular horizontal boxes filled with a spectrum of colors through which I can see my peeps shadows as they wander around. I've tried to get a picture of this problem but when I do it all looks normal in the print screen pics. So I have to start the task manager to quit the game and on two occasions when I restarted the game all my money was gone! Not that I had a lot to begin with! Anyway does anyone have any suggestions for this Arnie? Could it be my monitor giving up the ghost???

This sort of thing is almost always a display/adapter issue. The best thing to do is to go through these display troubleshooting procedures to see if all of your computer's settings are compatible with the game.

Will do Lady, my games have been playing fine up to just recently so I'm sure it's probably just I need to update my driver, thanks for the prompt reply!