Hello again, Challenge Team!
After a week of trying to fix my save, I think I've managed it, but also think I've wrecked any chance for HOF. Here's what I've done.
First, tried going back before the save error started. No luck there, it just showed up again.
Then, tried removing the hair and eyes cc I had for Jareth, created a new factory reset, put last working save in there, and lo and behold, that didn't work either.
Then, I tried to evict and move them back into the house. That made it worse.
So I took a copy of the last working save again, (I'm so tired of that file, you can't believe it), and ran it through Error Trap. It cleared over 1000 errors, but the family and UI were still missing. So when it was finished with that, I did the edit town trick again, which worked, and now had a clean working save.
Then I copied the save into yet another brand new factory reset file with no mods. It seems to be working just fine.
I'm assuming that use of Error Trap has precluded entry into the HOF for this dynasty. So I'm just going to keep on going with the story.
Thanks,
Tia