It's (AFAIK) completely automated. It sounds obvious, but are you positive that you are typing your email address correctly in the login request? If not, you'll never get the confirmation token.
Yeh, I don't know, email address is correct. Only thing I can think of is that I used a password that I probably used before, and it says not to use a password already in use...
I submitted again with a new password and a new email, so will have to wait and see...
EDIT: Now thats more like it. I don't know what was going on there... Oh well. I can now participate.