>> when I activated my pre 9th May code the rs.com side showed me the next side after logging in where the status said the code was already generated <<
RKnuth, i asked rs.com about that and they told me that's "normal":
it just means you've already got your pre-may-9th code (by email and/or in your account page on rs.com)
"What do you want - what?!"
- Keith