Derekz, if you truly wanted back into the ls, you would at least ACT like you're sorry. It was a player made line, but how does that make it different from player made rules of etiquette for HNM thingies? Granted I don't have a perfect track record on HNM etiquette, but at least I can admit I was wrong, and I did apologize for it. And even though I wasn't the actual one who did it, I was with them, and I didn't do anything to stop it. As the saying goes, "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem".
Everybody else was patiently waiting in line, taking their turn, in a very fair system. Except for those lucky ones who got into FFXI right after the update, EVERYBODY waited. I waited, my friends waited, non-friends waited, even people I don't like waited.
If you had just apologized, I'm sure none of all this stuff woulda happened. It may be "just a game" but it's still played by real people, act accordingly.