[Wilty]

I solved this by hooking up my DAW to the internet, something I said I wasn't going to do.
Manged to get everything activated, and despite crashing Cubase (I think the shock of having some heavyweight synths and samplers was a bit too much for the old boy) I think everything is sorted, but I'd be interested to know why the NI offline registration system is so naff. I even updated the Service Centre to no avail, other than it gave me slightly more details that 'Not Activated' as a message. I'm gonna leave my post up on the NI forums too, I want to know if this was just me. For once I know it wasn't human error, and what with the messing around getting the return code it wasn't my lucky day.
Oh well, now I just have a stack of manuals as big as a bible to wade through so I better snap to it.