How about just add the option to manually right click and upload the character data ourselves.

I'm looking at it realistically. The character uploader has only barely worked since the client's launch. This way for the people who actually cared about it, they could simply manually upload the data themselves. I know you guys say you're fixing it, but let's face it, you've been saying that for 6 months, and it still hardly works. So why not just let us do it ourselves? At least then you know it'd work when people want it to.