Administrative Oversight...now what???

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   I have been battling having a mistake fixed by the nslc for almost seven years.  My loan was placed into collections after a call where I was requesting interest only payments and not interest free.  They sent the interest free and from that is where my nightmare began.
I have filed two appeals with the Canada Student Loan Program without success.  The last letter I received states that they had infact made an administrative oversight on my account.  

When I started the process of making appeals I was told that if an error any kind was found, my loan would return to the state it was in at the time of the error.  The first appeal responded with saying there was no oversight however if I paid 5000.00 in interest they grant me assistance with repayments plans as my financial situation now qualifies for that.  I argued that as their mistake had already wrecked my credit and had my loans bounce around for years, while I made payments, that that was not fair.  I  continued to argue that there was a mistake. 

After a second appeal and 67 pages of documentation, including correspondence sent to me by the nscl, I was told that an administrative oversight had occurred however as I already had the chance to pay up the interest there was no further option.

In 2007 I had the nscl send me all their copies of correspondence which included documentation of me calling immediately when I received the wrong contract as well as direction that tells the reps not to talk to me and to ignore my calls.  

I have talked to my MP about this and he thinks that I should pay and not try and right this wrong.  
I feel I should pay my loans however feel that I would not be in this situation providing the initial mistake was not made.  I have continued to put money on my loans however as they move around the interest piles up.  As well when the first investigation happened, it took 9 months of the nscl to tell me that I needed to pay the approximate $5000.00 in interest and during that 9 months, they would not accept payment.  

The question is where do I go from here?

Please help