RA> To fix the grunge I change the space in his serial number to a dash and
 RA> all is fine..
Is it a *space* in the serial number, or is it something else?
Please show me a side-by-side ASCII versus hex dump of the relevant part of 
the packet.  ie.
(hex digits)          (ascii version)
xx xx xx xx xx xx xx  aaaaaaaaa
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