Well it looks like your feeling is wrong. As you can see I donated (early in the campaign) with a large contribution. My name is in orange and has been since January. I do get the same error message on multiple browsers. Something is seriously wrong with the permissions on donating members on this board.
When Scott did the lock out, he locked me out even though I donated at the beginning of the drive. So IMHO there seems to be a group of posters with permissions problems on their accounts.