User blog:WayfinderOwl/Is there something wrong with my game? (Sims 3)

I made the switch to Sims 3, because I wanted to try it out. I turned story progression off, because I prefer to have the whole neighbourhood do what I want them to. Aging was turned off as well, because I wanted to take my time getting used to the controls.

I turned the aging back on for a day or two, so my household could age a little, to force some members to grow into the next stage with the birthday cake. Some sims have entirely dissappeared. I can't find them anywhere. Some new sims have moved into a house. Others seem to keep spawning babies and toddlers. I've had to make a sim to remove babies from both the Goth and the Bachelor households. The game is acting as if story mode was switched on, when I litterally turned it off the second Sunset Valley finished loading. It has never been on since. I turned the sim life span setting to Epic, but Kaylynn Langerak still aged up. Someone from her house has entirely vanished. And Xander Clavell has dissappeared, and some how his elder parents have had a baby. Have I triggered some glitch or something?