Need your thoughts or advice...

So I'll just give a brief scenario of what happened to me a month or so ago, and any advice any of you can present is greatly appreciated.

I have a Google Adwords account that I was using on and off for my sites. So here's the scenario. I posted an ad up onto the account, but accidentally put the wrong URL which was a Clickbank URL I had wanted to put on a site instead.

After about an hour or so of checking my ad, I realized, "hmmm... no impressions?" and then realized the error that I had done, so I quickly removed the ad altogether. And then throughout the day, I realized the impressions to ALL of my ads stopped! I bet you know where this is going. Yup! The next day, I got the red banner of death on my Google Adwords account that I was banned!

So I emailed them and inquired on it and advised what had happen. Still banned. I called Adwords, and they said they would look into it. A couple of days later, my account was reviewed by the investigation staff who stated that I was a repeat offender (this was the first offense I had EVER had and wasn't even notified in a way of this one). I got several "scripted" looking replies. So it seemed I was banned altogether. So, I just deleted ALL of my ad campaigns from there.

I sent them a survey and advised them of the issue as well. This was before I removed all of my ad campaigns but after I was banned. I told them yadda yadda yadda, that I was basically disappointed at the way they handle bans, especially with the whole "repeat offender" violation of landing page blah blah (it wasn't even for my landing page, it was a mistake of my pasting the wrong URL even though I thought I had the right one copied.).

So here's the strange part: It appears that after I removed all of my campaigns altogether, and even though I did "Close Account", the account didn't close. Instead, the next day, I noticed the Red banner of death was GONE!! So I guess when I deleted all of my campaigns, it was gone.

Of course, the next day, I got another follow up email from someone who was still looking into my account, and of course, they too said "after further review, we cannot remove the suspension". So needless to say, I don't know where I stand with Adwords as far as Google is concerned.

Even weirder is that I then received emails that my "ad campaign has been approved"... an ad campaign that I had setup before and deleted. How is it approved, it's not even on my Dashboard??

And then I've received other emails since then talking about to improve my ads, blah blah blah for keywords and all the tech stuff they tend to send you. I haven't tried setting up an ad as I was afraid it would cause them to want to also shut down my Adsense account. So I wanted to at least make sure I got my check from them first, which thankfully, I did.

So my question to you all is this: Would you try to set up an Ad campaign or two to test it out to see if it worked? Would you contact Google and tell them that you're active again in hopes they don't ban you completely again? What do you think is the best option?

I want to try Google Adwords again as I wanted to try ads with more targeted Exact searches. However, I'm not sure if this will flag me with issues even though they sent those generic scripted emails stating my Ads were approved (to which I have no ads running).

I don't have the luxury right now of going to get a new debit card, trying to change my IP address, trying to use a different name. I want to do things by the book with them as best as possible. Is it my fault now if i try another ad that they cleared my ban even though they stated it wasn't officially clear? Your thoughts are greatly appreciated!

I've been trying Adcenter and they're not bad, but still not Adwords. Adbrite didn't pan out well for me at all... guess I don't have the right niche for it.

Thanks again in advance.