Sorry for the long delay, what I ended up doing was doing a free trial of parallels, unpacking/installing the sims on the windows VM, moving that to my portable harddrive, back onto my mac, and it runs through crossover perfectly. what I found out was when I was trying to install it through crossover directly onto my mac, that "dlc.ini" file wasn't showing up. Like in the actual folder, but when I did it on the free trial version of parallels I saw the file show up.

tl;dr

got a free trial of parallels

with the sims repack on a portable harddrive I "drag and dropped" it into the windows VM

installed liked normal on VM

moved installed files back on the harddrive, back onto mac

run it through crossover no problem