Reactivation bug(?) fix/help

[GL29]

Ever since I had to do a wipe and reinstall of my system I have to go through reactivating my license every time there's any sort of an update. I'm not sure what got messed up on my system to cause this but I'm thinking the only way to fix it may be to delete and reinstall HL again. Has anyone else experienced anything like this and if so was there anything you did to "fix" it without having to reinstall the software again? I don't mind doing the reinstall again, it's having to reactivate it and wait a few days to be able to use it that I'm trying to avoid if possible.

Also is there any way to get the reactivation process sped up at all in cases like this? While I'm sure things like this are rare sometimes when they do happen it's at just the wrong time (thank you Murphy). In my case I updated HL so I could print out some stuff for a new game that's starting tonight and now I'm hung up waiting for the reactivation notice which probably wont show for a day or two I really knew better to do that right before I needed to use it but dummy me did it anyway. Too much work on the brain I guess.

Anyway any help/info/incite would be greatly appreciated!