Hello mpaneth,
I agree with Dan. If after you do a complete reinstall, you still have problems Activating or receive Non-Genuine messages, create a new thread and then download and run the Genuine Diagnostics tool (MGADiag.exe) at this link
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=52012. Click "Continue", click the "Copy" button then “Paste” the report into the new thread.
Thank you,
Darin MS