WD SmartWare Pro now asking me to activate, AGAIN!

I started having this same issue a couple of days ago. I tried the usual of uninstalling the program and do a reinstall

but with the same results. Most of the time it will not let me activate the program, giving the “There was an error trying to validate your activation code. Pleae try again later”

I have also tried turning off my anti-virus and firewall during activation with no change in results.

I did open a case, but the email reply was to call in and ask for level 2 support. Since WD seems to be aware of the problem I am not sure what good it would do to call if they do not have a solution yet.