Kinda weird thing happened with Battlefield 3. On Monday night, I downloaded the one hour trial so I could "preload" the game for its PS+ release. Tuesday night, I started up the game for the first time and downloaded the 2 gig patch. Ended up falling asleep while it was patching. When I went to start the game it said it was expired but I was able to boot up and play it. After I played it for about 45 minutes, I quit the game and checked the store and it just had a download link. I never actually "purchased" it. Does it automatically do this if you have the one hour trial version downloaded?
I also had a problem similar to you. The night before I downloaded the trial to "pre-load" since I figured it was the full game, and would be unlocked once I purchased the full version the next day. Download finished and I installed it.
However, I got busy and never found the time to actually run it (so I never got the patch of course).
The next day it is free on PSN so I go to the page to "purchase" it. It won't let me purchase the full game because I "already own it," yet it does not show up as purchased, nor in my purchase or download histories. Only the "Timed Trial" shows up in my download history. There is no record of the full version being purchased.
I tried deleting the "trial" version off of my hard drive and redownloading the full version from the PSN store on the PS3. The full version was available for me to download. Awful waste of bandwidth, but I thought it might somehow cause the full version to register on my account.
Now I have the full version on my hard drive, and yet it still won't show up in my transactions or my download history. It still only lists the trial version.
I am worried that once the game deal expires on PSN, it will stick me back with the trial version since it seems to have no record of me "buying" the full version.
I did email support about it yesterday, no reply yet.