See RokuJoel's comment in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=74634&p=457962#p457962I believe this is a recent policy change, which could explain why it worked before, but no longer does.
There is no other way to retrieve the user's email address aside from prompting them to enter it manually via an roKeyboardScreen.
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