Preregistration for WSOP been down for almost a week

[wpr101]

I've been trying now for almost a week to register with Harrah's for the main event. I get all the way through the pre-registration and it says their system is down. I called them two days ago and they said they had no idea if the system would even come back. Has anybody been able to register in advance for an event? If so, you are very lucky, and how the hell did you do it?