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The activation took place over the net with no hassle. I was expecting to have to phone it in after all that stuff changed (basically a hard drive, one stick of RAM, and the CPU were the only common parts), but I didn't. Activation isn't nearly as painful as people make it out to be (as long as you do have a legit copy).

Apparently you can reactivate without needing to phone them up if there is a long enough period between originally activating and reactivating it.