Oh man, so sorry to hear that; this is so discouraging. I can't even get my app reviewed at this point, and I shudder to think, what if this happens after I deploy into the wild?

I really hope it works out for you, because I know this is pretty painful. I've been waiting going on 5 days for someone from apple to call me, and my luck, I'll miss the call :S

It's nuts to think we should need to delete/recreate new product ids any time you put out a new release - prod or otherwise, this would be completely unacceptable. While it may work for unreleased apps, albeit a HUGE PITA, it would be catastrophic for apps in production, which is my fear. If this UI bug occurred during a subsequent update in production, deleting IAPs would permanently invalidate the original product IDs—which cannot be reused, and would break all existing customer purchases!

This workaround is unacceptable. While it may work for unreleased apps, it would be catastrophic for production apps. If this UI bug occurred during a subsequent update, deleting IAPs would permanently invalidate the original product IDs—which cannot be reused. This would break all existing customer purchases.

Well, that would absolutely 5uck because you can't reuse the IAP or subscription names!

Well, that would absolutely suck if I had to do that because you can't reuse the names.