Glad you called them. That is the way I read it too.
About saving your points. Yeah it sucks to have to pay $25 for a point. Some of the best areas your looking at 8 to 11 points to draw. Figure it up at $25 a point. Look how much you have invested in just the tag.
You can still be saving points and still be hunting in Colorado for elk. If you don't draw your first area, you get a point and if you draw your second choice you go elk hunting. Or just buy a over the counter tag.