Well....
After much trial and hardship and frustration I have finally obtained a viable pre-order code from Gamestop. I'm just going to vent a little bit here:
My boyfriend's best friend is a manager at Gamestop so I asked if he would pre-order the collectors edition for me and use his discount. I did not get the code from him for about 2 weeks because he was expecting it to be emailed to him when it had actually printed out on the receipt. When I finally got it, it and input it into the site; it only showed that I had the standard edition ordered so I had them generate another code for me. This one showed the CE was on pre-order but when I tried to complete the registration it said the code had already been used. The third code said the same thing. I found out from the forums that I wouldn't get any of the CE in game items until i input my actual game code from the CE box itself at launch and the it didn't matter what my pre-order code said I had so I went with my original code which worked.
I don't blame Gamestop for this, it was Bioware's fault not getting valid pre-order codes to them. I had tried emailing them but they just gave me the run-around.
But suffice to say I am now registered! Yay!