Good luck!
I did my PPL at EFT in 2005. We took my fingerprints on arrival...but it seems they never got sent off. At any rate, I stayed 5 weeks, did the whole course, and it wasn't until applying for a visa last year for the CPL and IR that we discovered I'd done the whole PPL without having done the TSA process!
Didn't seem to bother anyone, either then, or last year.