For me, the worst part is the 180-day mark is the next exciting moment of the vacation after booking the trip. This experience dampens the excitement. Of course, it doesn't kill it, but it defeats the purpose of the 180-day milestone (which they even make a deal about when they send you those date things with Dumbo) - maybe I hate dumbo now too!!! ;-)
I'm on the west coast, and got up at 3 am to make my reservations. I gave up at 3:45 and went back to sleep.
I encourage everyone to email guest relations (or guest service or whatever it is). They will respond.
Finally today was 180 days from the last day of my trip, so I don't have to see Lady or Tramps 'paws' anymore. Perhaps they should rename the perk "180+10 or 180+180+180+180+180+180+180... if you are the small percentage of people who our website all of sudden doesn't work for"