Do I need the patches?

[Alpha Qazar]

I have a Mac G4 with OS X 10.3.9 and Sims 2 with Nightlife, University, and Open For Business installed.... do I need to run the patches?
I have some weird problems: When I resurrect someone, even if I pay full $$$, they come back married to everyone they ever knew, even family members and babies!
Also, to back up my Sims folder, before adding any custom content, do I simply copy the folder TheSims2 in users/myname/library/Application Support/The Sims2 ???
I really dont want to lose the neighborhood I have built so far, but I also want to try some custom content and am afraid it will crash my Sims, and lose everything! All help is appreciated!
Alpha.
:knockedout:

[Sacharissa]

To back up your neighborhoods, you should be copying the Sims 2 folder in your Documents folder - not your Library or Applications folder.

On my G4 PowerBook, the foleder is: Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods. I believe that if you back up the Neighborhods folder and the Downloads folder, you are god to go. I, however, am paranoid, so I just back up the entire Sims 2 folder!

Not sure about the problems you've had with resurrection, but as far as the patches go, I do not believe that you need the patches from EA Games/Maxis that most people on this forum refer to. I beleive those ar mostly for the Windows version. However, Aspyr has at least one patch for the Mac version, which you should probably install.