WTF is wrong with the PEAR site forcing me to register to submit a bug, yet doesn't provide any way to!?

I wanted to submit a bug that the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.1 is still broken. http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6584 <http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=6584&thanks=3> &thanks=3 "[2007-05-17 22:59 UTC] User who submitted this comment has not confirmed identity If you submitted this note, check your email.If you do not have a message, click here to re-send <http://pear.php.net/bugs/resend-request-email.php?handle=%23e7e9fc9479727464e31> MANUAL CONFIRMATION IS NOT POSSIBLE. Write a message to pear-dev@lists.php.net to request the confirmation link. All bugs/comments/patches associated with this email address will be deleted within 48 hours if the account request is not confirmed!" So I add a comment and it sends me a confirmation email. http://pear.php.net/account-request-confirm.php?salt=e7e9fc9479727464e3191129f300960a <http://pear.php.net/account-request-confirm.php?salt=e7e9fc9479727464e3191129f300960a&type=bug> &type=bug I click it. Then it asks me some username/password info. but I'm not registered, so it fails. https://pear.php.net/account-request-confirm.php Then I try to register: https://pear.php.net/account-request.php and unless I'm a complete idiot, I don't see a link that says, "NEW ACCOUNT" or anything like that!? There are account creating links for everything else though: https://pear.php.net/account-request-newpackage.php https://pear.php.net/account-request-existingpackage.php https://pear.php.net/account-request-vote.php but the one that is what I need has no account creation page: https://pear.php.net/bugs/ So how the F*&$#^% do I register to submit a comment for a PEAR package that has been broken for months and nobody is fixing for over a year and makes the entire package unuseable! BTW, here is what I tried to add to the bug: Seriously there is no solution to this yet? I'm copying and pasting the example from <http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.fileformats.spreadsheet-excel-writer.intro.php> http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.fileformats.spreadsheet-excel-writer.intro.php and it doesn't work. The other error I keep getting is: <b>Fatal error</b>: Call to undefined method stdClass::close() in <b>/lockdown/includes/pear/Spreadsheet/Excel/Writer/Workbook.php</b> on line <b>510</b><br />