online password - am I going crazy or what?

[NewJeffCT]

Am I going crazy, but is there anything special about these instructions where it keeps returning "invalid password"?

I even used a random combo of letters a fw times (small & caps), numbers and characters and it was invalid. My wife tried it as well, with no luck.

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