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Update: after about two weeks of trying over internet and phone, I've finally managed to register on a Saturday in October. Right now, the site is still not working, but the phone registration is (I called early in the morning and got a 30 minute wait). If you're looking online and the date you want is not available, it's probably available if you call. The utterly broken system is still not showing all the dates.

Has anyone been able to register via phone? Each time I call them, I'm put on hold forever, and I just gave up after 40 minutes...

I don't want to take it on a weekday because I have work and no paid vacation, so taking a day off would cost several hundred dollars of income. As unpleasant as it seems, it's cheaper (time and money wise) to take the 2 hour trip to Sacramento. However, right now I'm inclined to believe that the test centers are not actually fully booked, it's just a technical glitch that's showing most of them as fully booked. If I search for tests 5-6 months in the future, the system still reports them as almost fully booked; this is absurd, so my results are almost certainly because of the glitch. That being said, the system glitch has persisted for 3 days now, and I don't have any information about the true availability of the testing centers, not even by calling them. It's really unacceptable that a function central to the system, registering for the GRE, remains completely broken for 3 days, but hey, what can you do. For now, I'll have to wait for the system to fix itself before committing to a suboptimal test date / location.

I'm looking to take the GRE some time in October, I live in San Francisco. I can only take it on weekends. However, it looks like every test center in San Francisco in October and November is already booked on the weekends -- there are a few in the city, one in San Bruno, a few in San Jose -- nope, all full. So I'd have to travel to Sacramento to take it. Is this normal? This is my first time taking the GRE, and I didn't anticipate registering for the test to be so competitive. How far in advance do you typically need to register? Also, I noticed the website is quite buggy. When I click on a test center that's supposed to be available on a date, and try to show the times available, it tells me no seats are available.