Apple ID + iMessaging = Pain

Hi,
I'm proud owner of Mountain Lion since yesterday, everything's working fine so far, even the Messages.app ran, with my primary .me-mail address I could send and receive iMessages from my iPhone.
Well, as it happened today, by restoring my user library, it went corrupt, so I had to make myself a new user on the Mac. Since then, iMessaging is a pain. I am prompted - when first logging in to my user account - with the message that my Apple ID might not work correctly as it has been approved otherwise.
When running Messages.app, I get the error: "[email protected] cannot be approved, as it is in use by another Apple ID." Same applies to the .me-address. Well, happens that both addresses are not in use by another Apple ID, so I am sort of helpless here.
When I logged in after the installation yesterday, it worked.
Today, no more.
Please help. Do I need to give alternative mail addresses? Or any other hints?
Thx...

Hey ok,
I though you said you did a clean install but then you said you migrated your old data back to the clean install and after that you experienced your issue.
Once you migrate your old settings back to the new computer, it's like you never did a clean install and you are working from an installation overtop the previous build.
Since you restored your user library, you potentially introduced a bug that was not there before.
A clean install is only good if you work up from 0. Migrating your user folder also will migrate any issues you would have had with just installing over top of Lion.
If you are doing a clean install there is no logical reason to migrate your user preferenes back because essentially you just did a very round about installation ontop of your old computer.
Just my thoughts.
Try reinstalling ML from the recovery partition with your user folder as it is now, intact. ML will hopefully put the problem application in a folder for you to look over software incompatibilities.
If you did a clean install from a usb or dvd you might not have a ML recovery partition.
fallow these steps to get that back:
http://musings.silvertooth.us/2012/03/restoring-a-lost-recovery-partition-in-lio n/

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