activation issues

ok, being computer savy for 14 years, I cant figure this one out. Installed Vista Beta 2, ran for 2 weeks, started computer, went to screen with 4 options to activate windows. Tried all 4, nothing works. In other words, as of now my computer is just a box with a non-working OS on it. There is absolutly NO PLACE on microsfts website that directly address' this problem. My question is simply, how can this be fixed if you cant get to anything but that activation screen? Micorsoft says there is an update to fix the issue, my computer says there are no new updates, which means that it has installed all new updates, but yet still no way around the activation screen.
ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUES PLEASE?!?

and I just now attempted another product key, and the system went right to the error 0x8007000D. So this is not an issue with a product key, it is related directly to an activation bug.
"Dave Ack" wrote:

ok, being computer savy for 14 years, I cant figure this one out. Installed Vista Beta 2, ran for 2 weeks, started computer, went to screen with 4 options to activate windows. Tried all 4, nothing works. In other words, as of now my computer is just a box with a non-working OS on it. There is absolutly NO PLACE on microsfts website that directly address' this problem. My question is simply, how can this be fixed if you cant get to anything but that activation screen? Micorsoft says there is an update to fix the issue, my computer says there are no new updates, which means that it has installed all new updates, but yet still no way around the activation screen.
ANYONE HAVE ANY CLUES PLEASE?!?