Fortimail License not reachable!! Crippled!

My fortimail appliance (VM) cannot reach the fortinet servers to verify my license so my appliance has stopped working. I only have 8x5 support so they won' t help me until tomorrow! one two screens are reachable in the gui. under license status, it says " vmware: lost communication" I deployed an entirely new VM and as soon as I uploaded the license file, same problem!!!! I wish I knew a fix.