I got sick of the activation issue with Rockwell. My shop swaps hardware in an out like crazy, and we lose and corrupt our activations on a regular basis.
I finally found a program called "RsMaster" which is sold thru LRWSystems.com that lets me make backup copies of of my Master Disks, and even install activations onto PC's without needing a floppy drive.
I know AB probably dislikes it, but I've also heard from our local distrib that they are going to a new activation method soon, since so many PC's are shipping w/o floppies these days.
Cheers,
Randy