Purchased a 1-day trial last night. 20 hours later, still can't use it

I was hoping to trial out Honorbuddy first by purchasing the 1 day trial. I purchased it last night and tried to log in with the key I was provided. at the "Honorbuddy login" screen when you run Honorbuddy.exe


I keep getting this error:

It says "Logging in..." and after about 60 seconds times out and says:

"Authentication failed!"

Help would be appreciated!

 

Also, I did check here:

http://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorb...5-quick-hb-guide-presentation-fast-setup.html

Only saw this suggestion:

Make sure that there is no space before or after your key,in other case you will receive an "Auth failed" error message


Double-checked and I have no spaces but still not working

 

same here

 

username = key
pw = nothing here

if you still can't get in, check your firewall and make sure you let hb through

also make sure that you run hb as admin

 

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