Had the same thing happen in our second cache. the owners had not acticated it yet, and they were on vacation when they dropped it off, but they did eventually activate it...I got NO answers from Groundspeak or any Geocache contacts, but I am sure they are inundated with questions like ours...( Thus the forrum!) To make it less confusing, don't drop it off until it's activated, unless you just want to hand it off to someone else....