subscription status

i recently utterly crippled my main laptop (go me!), and resorted to my backup which doesn't have NIS installed.

 

now, i bought a subscription to NIS on the other one which had it pre-installed (hence, no cd).

so i downloaded the trial for this one thinking i'd just enter the product key and be fine.

right?

 

no.

 

no matter what i do, "subscription status says "30 days remaining", even though there's well over 200, since it renewed in july.

 

i dunno what's going on. i tied it to my norton account.

how do i manually enter the serial number/product key?

 

D'OH! figured it out.