Steam is having trouble.......

[corchard]

Last night I posted this to Steam support, and am still awaiting an answer:

Yesterday and today I tried to create my first ever Steam account, but each time I correctly enter the characters displayed in the capcha image, I receive "Please verify your humanity by re-entering the characters below."

I then repeat the process, taking care to type in the characters exactly as they appear, sometimes refreshing them if I am uncertain what the characters are - but each time I just receive that same notice. After a few attempts, I am then told "Your account creation request failed, please try again later."

I have tried to create an account using 4 different computers, 2 Macs and 2 running Windows 7, in Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari, but the above keeps happening.

I can assure you I am most definitely human, and feeling quite human frustration - so how can I create my Steam account?