@Kamikaze; the ban in question was a PB GUID global ban, not one from a banlist repository (like punksbusted, or the much superior pbbans etc.,) so appealing to Evenbalance would be the only option.
Ultimately though, removing cheats lies in the hands of EA, not evenbalance.
EA should be pursuing the hacksites themselves through the courts. Legally pursuing the creators of the hacks and hack-selling sites is the only viable option for dealing with the abundance of hack using kiddies.
An analogy would be: You can't solve a societies drug addition problem by locking up the drug addicts, you target the suppliers of the drugs.
As long as EA sit back and allow hack selling sites to generate profits unhindered, then talented coders will always jump in to fill that niche and will always be one step ahead of the EA dinosaur.
I also think that GUIDs based on cd-key are all too often proved fallible (as above) - hardware bans (although these too can be circumvented) would provide a hell of a lot more security.
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