Microsoft is stupid
Update:
Thanks for the recommendations guys. I went back to the auto-update site to search for the Microsoft help number. There was some link in tiny text under one of the sections on the validation page (the kind of text you see at the bottom of websites saying "powered by so-and-so's whatever software". Basically, it was barely noticable, but it was a link to a page "about windows validation software" or something along those lines.
So I go to that page and there is a button in the middle of the page saying "validate". I click on it fully expecting to get the same error, but it brings up some software to install. I click yes to install it and it almost instantly tells me my copy is now validated. Thanks for hiding the link that actually works Microsoft.
Anyway, it's working fine now. I figured I'd post this in case anyone else has similar difficulties.
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