outlook/hotmail prob & office 2007 validation tool?

[CB1]

basically my hotmail.com account i've had for like 15 years, has been running fine in outlook, but today i try to log on and i'm getting a message:

"Acces to hotmail via outlook & outlook express now requires a subscription. Please sign up at http://join.msn.com/general/Email ".

so i did that and all it did was log me on.

my other hotmail account i've had for about 6 years still works fine though :confused:

so me being a d!ck, then decided to update the outlook connector

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7aad7e6a-931e-438a-950c-5e9ea66322d4&displaylang=en

and stupidly tried to validate my office :zombie:

let's just say it failed

so is there a validation tool anywhere?

and is this my problem with outlook?

[Van Nugent]

We can only suggest you validate MS software via MS validation/activation server. "Work-around" tools may be available on Google but we can't discuss them here. :)