I've been having trouble with my Saitek controllers ever since I installed windows XP.  I've been to Ron Hunts webpage, (which is no longer being maintained from what I understand)  and followed their instructions.  Make a long story short, that didn't work quite right.
Well, there is a tab on his pages that leads to a message board on SimHQ.com.
Here I found a  wealth of information about the drivers and what to do, although I still have not gotten it to work.  So I had some questions.
I went to register, and found out I couldn't.  My deutsch cable service doesn't give me an email address with it, so I use a hotmail.com email.  WELL, SimHQ will not register "free" email addresses. 
I sent an email to them, explaining my situation, and asked if they would authorize me to register. They said no. 

So now, I can't get the help at the one place that talks about the saitek drivers more than any other place.
I am a bit upset that because I have a "free" email service I am not entitled to ask questions like those "better" people who have "paying" email services.
Kronos