Ah, but there was hope! There was a link to "I forgot my password" which I clicked immediately. The friendly popup window asked me to type my email address (which I did) and then to type in the letters displayed in the box.  The problem was that th letters were written in a style so close together and in some weird distorted shapes, I couldn't read them!

Then I saw a little wheelchair icon next to the box, which offered assistance for the disabled. Well, I'm not disabled, but it offered a system to read the letters to me so I could listen and type them out.  That involved installing some sort of Activex script thing, which I did.  Once more I clicked on the wheelchair icon and listened for the audio.

What I heard sounded like the noise in a factory with bells and whistles going off in the background.  Every so often a voice could be heard saying something indistinguishable, but it sounded almost like German!  Needless to say, I couldn't hear any letters to type out.

The only way I was able to get through the process and reset my password was to refresh the page enough times to get an image of letters I could decipher.

Talk about making something simple so complex nobody can do it....

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