Windows 8.1 Pro activation with Windows 8 product key

I know there are a few discussions going around on here and various other forums about this topic but I am completely stuck.
I have a valid Windows 8 Pro (64bit) product key. I did a fresh install of Windows 8.1, not thinking too much about how my product key would be affected - after all, it's all the same major version of Windows right?
So I fresh installed, the product key error message came up and I got on the phone to Microsoft and tried to enter that 9-10 part massive activation key thing and got error messaged and then hung up on multiple times. I put this down to bad phone reception.
I went ahead and re-installed all of my apps and configured everything to how I like it.
This afternoon I again jumped on the phone to Microsoft and talked to a real person. He told me that I cannot use my 8.0 key with 8.1. Fair enough, I had a feeling this was coming. I asked for a way around this and he told me to reformat, install windows
8 and then upgrade to windows 8.1.
Seriously guys? wtf.
Does anyone know of a way around this, or if there WILL be a way around this in the near future? I'm not wasting another day backing up, re-formatting and re-installing everything onto my computer again just to upgrade and use my key that SHOULD work on
the same major version of an O/S.
Rohan

Milos, I have had time to look at your link but come up empty handed. I had previously tried this approach and kept getting the same "this key didn't work, please check it and try again, or try a different key" error message.
I used one of the generic keys during the install phase in the hope of doing this method but it hasn't worked out.
Do you have any other ideas?

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