activation did not remove the footer link

I activated the theme and the activation key is showing on the page.
However, when I remove the link at the footer, it shows the error at the top saying, Please return the links to the footer!"
What can I do?
when I initially activate it, it gave me 'forbidden' error as well.

a seperate question,
and why is that return the footer message twice??

please help!!!!

Please email me @ fred@koreatownpc.com

Hello,
I have same problem. Purchased and activated theme (activation number on ...admin.php?page=activate is shown)
Still footer links are present and if I try to edit footer.php and remove links i have following message:

Please return the links to the footer!
Or purchase free links version of the theme.

Maybe I'm wrong with understanding... maybe editing footer.php isn't way, but i can't see any other way.

Hi!
Please contact us via support@smthemes.com. In most of cases we need personal information, order numbers and activation keys to help with activation. Activation problems will not be solved via forum.