Re: @tekHedd - I haven't downvoted a post in a long time...
@Steve Crook - "At one point I began to wonder if it wasn't all part of some clever game, where if I collected the messages and re-arranged correctly them I'd win a huge prize."
I did, and the acronym from all the messages was the location and license key to a shiny new AS/400 that didn't run AIX. :)