How can I sign into iMessage with a different Apple ID?

I setup iOS5 and got it running. I used all my existing AppleID info.
Once it was running I decided to do some personal housekeeping and went to AppleID.Apple.com to clean up my various emails and to set my appleid to a email address that I actually am using.
I made the change and I was able to update to the new main ID in facetime but I can't login to iMessage anymore. It just keeps asking for the password to my old AppleID and won't allow me to put in the new ID.
How do I get iOS5 to forget the old iMessage ID?
Any advice would be great!
(I must add: This has been the MOST problematic update I've ever done with Apple - I had difficulties with my iPad2, iPhone 3Gs AND my AppleTV Gen2)
Jason

Go to Settings>iCloud and change the email address.  You can change the password there, too.
It took me some time to find it, too, but they seem to be two names for the same function.

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