I about ready to throw in the towel.

The method that I detailed earlier about getting my Gamertag working again doesn’t really work. While it lets Chill Penguin get online, it does not allow me to view or alter my account or download anything from the Marketplace. My account is in a bad state, as said by the Xbox Live Operations Manager that has been helping me work through my problem.

I tried to recover my account again, only to lose my save files again. Now, I can’t recover Chill Penguin at all. I’ve spent an insane amount of time on the Xbox forums, PMing the XBL Operations Manager I mentioned earlier, and on the phone with the billing team at Microsoft Xbox. It seems that I cannot get this to work at all.

I’m on the phone with their billing department right now, and it looks like I am out my $50 for Chill Penguin, as well as the $25 for the 2000 Marketplace points that I bought a few weeks ago.

I’ve spent the three weeks since the 360 launch being upset with this situation, and I think it is time that I just gave up. I think I’m going to use Gentoo from here on out and leave Chill Penguin behind… I just can’t deal with this anymore.