Yes, I need advise from you sage folks. I have not updated my game for about a year because when I have in the past...well you know. Error this, DEP crash that, etc. The last time I did was when I bought Pets.
Katy Perry makes me puke green; Showtime--'Yawn" and I don't enjoy the idea of Zombies creeping around my neighborhood. Well, I bit the bullet and yesterday I pre-ordered 'Seasons'. :lovestruc
So now the question, do I update BEFORE I install Seasons or does installing it come with the latest update? I remember that I must take all my Mods out first, but what else should I do to avoid a mess? I know, I could probably look it up, but I am lazy (it's my one day free from work & stress). Please help an almost elder (RL)who is really looking forward to winter (in the Sims) and aliens abducting Bella for real!! :D

Seasons will probably contain the 1.42 patch. So you could wait for that or you could already patch to 1.42. But don't forget to update certain mods you use too, especially scripting mods. You can mess up things if you don't update the mods also.
Also, after patching i would clean the cachefiles. And backup your saves.

Thanks! I delete the cache files every time I play. I was planning to update my NRas files too. I hope it works and I have no problems.

I would advise anyone to update to 1.42 before installing the Seasons EP. There is no proof that the Seasons disc has the patch 1.42 on it. It may have some patch number which has never been released, like 1.40 or 1.41; and the 1.42 we are on now was completed afterwards.

Thanks! That's what I wanted to know.