Exchange 2010 Cert Renewal problems

We have a standalone Exchange 2010 that will have it's cert expire next month.  Our problem is that doing the "Renew Exchange Certificate" from EMC generates a .req file that contains gibberish and is not in the acceptable format.  If we do renew certificate via IIS7, we get an acceptable format but then pasting it onto GeoTrust's site for renewal generates an error stating that it's too long.  So far I only seen one forum with reference to this issue but there was still no solution there (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-NZ/exchange2010/thread/32deccf8-17b6-444c-b523-663fd1276cd7).  

Sample of gibberish .req file out of EMC:
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Sample of a very long cert generated via IIS7:

-----BEGIN NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----
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-----END NEW CERTIFICATE REQUEST-----


Your expert help is much needed as we've got only month prior to expiry.  Fire Away!