If EA had any brain in their collective head, they would re-release the previous patch, so that we could all move onto that instead, while they fix up their borked patch. Its what every other decent, respecting software company in their situation does in the given situation. But EA has does not have a brain, and nor are they decent of self respecting, so it is highly unlikely that they will
I never post here, just read, but thought I could help since I know of a site with archived patches. Here you go.
http://www.patches-scrolls.de/sims3.php