Victory!

So I finally was able to initiate the repair process for my Xbox 360. At some point in the future I will return to Live. I have no idea when that will be, but the major hurdle has been cleared.

Oddly enough the first person I spoke to may have cleared up my problem, but I have no way of knowing. He told me to create a Windows Live account. At first after I did that it didn't help me at all, but today I logged in with my new hotmail address instead of the yahoo one tied to my gamertag, and voila! It let me in. Then I put in my serial number, and it successfully registered whereas before it told me the number was already being used. I still have to pay $100 for the privilege of getting my Xbox repaired, but c'est la vie.

I saw the hilarious misspelling of my email that led to this whole mess once I actually got in the system. It was a nice bit of closure. Now I just need to remember to back up all of my saved games. I doubt they will return to me intact.