Cancelling your Passport.NET Account?

An anonymous reader asks: "i read on the Passport.NET site that 'Microsoft has announced plans to discontinue the .NET Passport express purchase service' AKA .NET Passport wallet. This may well be old news but the reason i stumbled on it is I want to discontinue my Passport account. There is a link on the account maintainace page that allows just this - however it bounced me to my Hotmail account which I had to close first. However my Passport account is still open and when I try to close it I just get bounced to the Hotmail reactivation page... (the reason i am so hyper about this is anger at being automatically opted-ini to two seperate information sharing schemes without being asked - no wonder there was so much spam! Have any of you had a similar problem closing your account? Has anyone managed? If so how?"