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I just got a Not Genuine message on my XP install, of course I was moving it from my dead P4 motherboard to a Core 2 Duo. Since the hardware had changed I had to call and go through reactivation automated voice.
But even after I read them the numbers and entered the ones I was given, I still showed the Not Genuine message. It may have gone away after a reboot, but I clicked on the Not Genuine star in the system tray and it went online to verify and removed the message. Yours may need to go through an update or a software check to verify.
I do not believe the Not Genuine message is necessarily associated with activation.