Hm, I have no solution but one thing I haven't read here is that it could be such an identical problem as in the time after installing Ambitions (or was it World Adventures?) that CAW didn't work anymore.
We all needed to wait for EA to release a patch that has solved the problem, but it took a while before they did.
What you could do, but it is very timeconsuming, is to install the game again, but without the latest expansion, which is at the moment I type this Late Night. Than you know it is because of that last expansion or not.
But if you ask me, just don't do it and wait for EA to fix it. You're savefiles will either get corrupted and unreadable or you will miss objects and things related to Late Night after you startup that savefile.
You could call EA about this problem, if you like.