DirectX 9 Issues

Before I start digging around for answers, I thought I'd throw this out there to anyone who may have already dealt with this problem. I finished installing my Sims 2 basegame and all the EPs and SPs, and when I tried to run it, I received this message:

Has this happened to anyone else? I'm running Windows 7, and I'm assuming I'm also running something that's a more recent version of DirectX. Any thoughts? I'd appreciate any advice you can throw my way.

ETA: I'm taking a look at this page. Hopefully, it'll provide an answer. Ugh, I can be so clueless about this sort of thing.

Simblr

I've finally decided to give this tumblr thing a try. I've been lurking around on people's simblrs from time to time anyway, so I may as well create one myself, right?

You can find me here: http://strangetomato.tumblr.com/

Please feel free to follow me and also share a link to your simblr in the comments below, so I can follow you. I'm trying to stick to sims-only tumblrs, so if you post about a lot of other types of things (something random here and there is fine), I probably won't follow your tumblr. This is, of course, nothing personal. I'd just rather not have any off-topic material crowding my dashboard. It's much like my livejournal flist that way.

My first impression of tumblr is that I'll probably like posting random game images on it a whole lot. I have so many pics that never seem to make it onto my journal because they really have very little purpose and there's not too much I could say about them, or I'm not up for posting commentary, etc. Now I can just share these little snippets on my simblr. I still think I'll miss the actual written interaction, but I'll give it a chance.

So, yeah. Simblr. Have at it!