BuBBy, thank you for your reply to my new Activation forum posting, which you then closed. Oops! I apologize for forgetting the forum rules. I am ashamed, and will try to read and remember the rules better for next time.
Meanwhile, do you have any idea why I occasionally cannot activate a giveaway? I get the "failed to connect" message sometimes. This is an XP SP2 ThinkPad. It's behind a corporate firewall, which I cannot configure -- but that has not interfered with activating many other giveaways at other times. Of course, it only happens for the giveaways I want the most. :-(
Any help you can offer would be very much appreciated.