Great little story there John, I've been through simular situations in the past. I've had Anim:Master since the Playmation days. Will Pickering used to work over at Cineplay Interactive when they were marketing Playmation for Hash Inc. The office was located over in the NW area of Portland which was a little closer to me than popping over the River to Vancouver to actually go to Hash.
When a new update came out Will would just leave some 3.5" floppies at the Cineplay where I could just stop by and pick them up. Back then too Hash only had a BBS and at best we only had a 14.4 model so D'L'd anything would take longer than driving over to get the floppies. Will eventually went to work just at Hash so I started going over there to pick them up. I always enjoyed stopping by because sometimes they would show me some new project like a commericial or such that they are working on. I only actually had a chance to talk to Martin briefly once.
Recently I also just resubscribed being out of the loop for awhile. The last version I had was V15, been a bit busy the last couple of years so I haven't even touched the software until I just built a new machine. Luckily since it was a brand new fresh install of V18 I didn't have to mess around to much getting it up and running with a new Activation Code.