Email marketing content approval

Hi all
I have just set up a client wityh Business Catalyst, as a handy all-in-one solution. They need to get an email out to a mailing list asap and it has been waiting for content approval for nearly 24 hours. The purchase is still in the statutory 28 day cooling-off period and the client will cancel unless I can get this through very quickly and with some suitable explaination as to why it will not happen again.
If the answer is that you can't send out an email until Adobe get back to the office on Monday, they will certainly cancel!
Can anyone help me out?

Eek. I knew posting on here would show up something really stupid I'd missed. I thought the client had paid on Wednesday, they thought I'd done it for them.
Best go and actually purchase the service for them .. ahem ...

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