Wow. Almost the entire article is about registering on the connect website. Let me get this straight, someone that has enough computer skill to find a bug and document it, has issues with registering with a website? This blog post is more about bashing Microsoft then it is helping in submitting a bug report.

Maybe you could put as much detail to what information Microsoft will need. You mention some tools, what reports would be useful? How much background would be useful? Are there files that could be exported from the tools? How about the tools already built into Windows, are any of them useful?