"But I'll say this: why do they put out notices telling people to get in touch with XYZ, when XYZ can't be bothered to reply to emails?"
must be kind of like why companies offer rebates on products... it makes the price look good (or the sec in this case) but they count on everyone being too lazy to actually go through with it.
Im thinking that the shares and due bills are in Ameritrades hands now, but they might have made a deal with GVRP in the process... GVRP agrees to hand over the shares and in exchange, ameritrade keeps a restriction on the trading of these shares until AFTER GVRP reverse splits the stock.. JMO