Your trial period has EXPIRED!

Has it sausages!

Today when I launched FM09 (having owned it since the day of launch) I am told that "Your trial period has EXPIRED", so I re-enter my key as prompted and then get the error message "We were unable to process your unlock request. To recieve a new key, please visit: http://www.sigames.com. Error : [-821]"

What a load of sausages this is! Why has it does this? Totally ********, I couldn't play FM all-day at work, I had to do actual work. SHAMBLES.

Is this a common issue? Is there an easy solution rather than the usual one of uninstalling, deleting every reference to the game and then reinstalling because that's a total ball ache.

I am fairly annoyed.