Don't give up hope on FD or on the values. I too have been following all the FD threads, calling at least once a week, checking my email several times a day and watching for the mail everyday for months. I had FD booked in September but couldn't work things out so we could go then and I've been wanting to switch to October. We haven't been since 2010 when DD3 was only a few months old and this time my friend and her family are going with us (its their first visit ...actually their first real vacation). I have been so worried and stressed that we would have to cancel September and without FD for October, we wouldn't be able to go at all. I too almost lost hope when I saw people posting no availability at the values. There will be 12 of us and 3 rooms at a value is the only way we could afford to go.
Well guess what????
Friday night, I asked DH to call AGAIN to check one more time to see if any of us had a PIN. I'm pretty sure we didn't but the wonderful CM on the other end gave us free dining for October.
DH came running into the room very excited and put me on the phone to book. I still didn't get my hopes up because I was afraid we wouldn't be able to get FD at a value and it would be worthless to us. She asked me if I had a resort preference and I told her that my 1st choice would be POP but at this point, I would be happy with any of the values. She checked and after what seemed like forever, she booked our three rooms at POP!!!
I'm not sure if this will be good news for you since it might mean more stressing but I would keep calling because FD is still out there and apparently still available at some of the values.
GOOD LUCK!!!