I forgot I had this thread opened. I got back around to looking at this, but the same error persists. This is the data that the Apple activation server responds with the iTunes:
I find the header 'x-frame-options: DENY' interesting....
HTTP/1.1 200 Apple WebObjects
Cache-Control: private
Cache-Control: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-store
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Expires: Sat, 15-Nov-2014 02:07:51 GMT
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
x-frame-options: DENY
Pragma: no-cache
x-webobjects-loadaverage: 11
date: Sat, 15-Nov-2014 02:07:51 GMT
set-cookie: wosid=*redacted*; version="1"; path=/WebObjects/IPACustomer.woa; secure; HttpOnly
set-cookie: woinst=-1; version="1"; path=/WebObjects/IPACustomer.woa; secure; HttpOnly
ntcoent-length: 3219
Set-Cookie: NSC_MCWT_*redacted*=*redacted*;path=/;secure;httponly
Content-Length: 3219
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.apple.com/itms/" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="keywords" content="iTunes Store" />
<meta name="description" content="iTunes Store" />
<title>iPhone Activation</title>
<link href="https://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_itunes/stylesheets/shared/common-mi n.css" charset="utf-8" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="https://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_itunes/stylesheets/pages/IPAJingleE ndPointErrorPage-min.css" charset="utf-8" rel="stylesheet" />
<script id="protocol" type="text/x-apple-plist">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>navbar</key>
<dict>
<key>menus</key>
<array>
</array>
</dict>
</dict>
</plist>
</script>
<script>
var protocolElement = document.getElementById("protocol");
var protocolContent = protocolElement.innerText;
iTunes.addProtocol(protocolContent);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="jingle-page-wrapper">
<div id="jingle-page-wrapper-header">
<div id="secure">
<img src="https://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_itunes/images/lock.png" />
</div>
<div id="banner">
<div id="apple-logo">
<img src="https://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_itunes/images/apple_chrome.png" />
</div>
<div id="carrier-logo">
<img src="https://static.ips.apple.com.edgekey.net/ipa_itunes/images/iphonereg/default/log o.jpg" />
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="jingle-page-wrapper-content">
<form method="post" id="jingle-page-form" action="/WebObjects/IPACustomer.woa/wo/0.0.0.1.17.3">
<div id="jingle-page-content">
<div id="IPAJingleEndPointErrorPage">
<h1>Your request couldn’t be processed.</h1>
<p>We’re sorry, but there was an error processing your request. Please try again later.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="jingle-page-buttons">
<div id="jingle-page-buttons-left">
</div>
<div id="jingle-page-buttons-right">
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div id="jingle-page-wrapper-footer">
<div id="footer">
<div id="legal">
Copyright © 2014 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
| <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/legal/iphone/us/privacy/">Privacy Policies</a>
| <a target="_blank" href="http://www.apple.com/legal/iphone/us/terms/">Terms & Conditions</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- BEGIN: Customer-facing debug information -->
<div id="preauth-internal" style="display: none;">
SID: P-20141219-*redacted*
Host: nc1-iphonesys-app345.apple.com
Instance: 40008
Time: Fri Dec 19 *redacted*
</div>
<!-- END: Customer-facing debug information -->
</body>
</html>
