IBookstore won't accept my US tax number

I tried to sign up to the iBookstore, but got an error email back saying the tax number I had submitted was not recognised.
The sign-up page requires that the number be entered without any hyphens.
The number the IRS gave me has a hyphen.
Is there a solution to this? I've sent off a reply to Apple's email, which requested details of the error message, but have heard nothing back; there seems to be around a 10-day wait between each mail and reply. Have others had this problem, and how have they solved it?

OisinOg wrote:
I have. It was this that got me the reply from Apple's help staff saying the number wasn't recognised...
Do you mean that the number itself is considered bad because a check digit is wrong or some such? Or is it because Apple can't find it in the IRS database yet? If the latter, it can take over a week before Apple's search in the IRS database actually finds the number. (It takes the IRS some time to update the DB.)
Michi.

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