who the hell posted this to consumerist?

Account Management -> Activate/Deactivate System -> Deactivate Game part.

Should do the trick.

I myself have not had any problems with this however I really do think Sony should take a page from Apple and let people release all activated systems at least once a year. 

I had a similar problem in iTunes this year when i decided to reload my desktop and my wifes pc to windows 7 and forgot to deauthorize both computers and apparently i forgot 3 other times and was locked out of my iTunes for a month.  Thankfully it wasnt too bad once August hit and i was able to release all authorized computers.

That aside hopefully once Sony really starts hammering out issues with PSN they can implement something simliar to ease many peoples issues with this.