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That's how we came across this in the first place. The book and the man aren't real, they're in-game.

No, you have to actually enter the keys.

Signing in and out of the service a few times seemed to fix it back when I had the problem.

A few things to note:

The company is "Puerto Rico 7, Inc."

It says there is a big watch in effect for 8/8 2007

...However, this appears to be a perfectly legit business announcement. Not sure why it was spammed.

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070730/0284014.html

I'd send mine, I was the second person to use a key, but my computer actually crashed mere moments after I was able to access the server, so I lost it from the clipboard. Although I did notice that some characters in it had been taken from my screenname.