Apple ID no longer accepts password

Thank you Apple.
Thank you for changing my password for me. So, I was one of the first on board to get an iPhone. At the time, I had an email address that I used for everything and I naturally used it to sign up for app purchases. All was good. Then, the domain for the email address I used was hijacked. I continued to use it cause... why not? Sure Apple might send communications to that address, but I was using it as a login name. I had my login name and my password. Nothing changed. Happy, happy. For years, all was good. Then...
Recently, Apple decided to "insist" on me having an uppercase in my password. Well, my passwords are random and this particular password happened not to have had an uppercase letter. No worries though. I'll just log in and change... oh wait... I can't. Because Apple won't let me login with a password without an uppercase letter. Nice. But it's okay because they offer a password reset... oh. But it's cool, because I can just update my email... ahhhhh. Who forces password changes and doesn't accept the previous password in order to log in to do so? Apparently Apple?
After much grumbling, I create a new account. Who care, right? I get over it and now I'm able to download apps again. But wait... I can't update apps purchased on my old account because these two accounts aren't linked together. What the...???? So I was an early adopter, purchased a lot of apps in the store and now because Apple gets a stick in their rear, forcing my password to change, I can no longer get free updates?
I have read countless forums about similar issues and I've tried all to no avail (none that I have found have worked). So... when did Apple become the new Microsoft? Probably when they started rolling out hardware and policy changes faster than a company their size should. I remember a time when they held on to software and hardware until they found all or most of these sorts of logic loops. Now they're having hardware, software and IP legal issues all over the place (*caugh*mapping*caugh*).
I try not to get into pointless arguments with a wall because Zeus knows they'll eventually tell me to drive it 200 miles to an Apple store and pay to have it looked at. So ranting aside, any ideas? Here are the factors again:
I have an old Apple ID with an old email address ("email A") and an old password ("password A") used to purchase tons of apps over the last few years
I don't have access to that old email address ("email A")
Apple changed the password protocols so that my old password ("password A") doesn't work or isn't accepted as a "standard Apple password" anymore
I created a new Apple ID with a new email address ("email B") and a new "Apple-approved" password ("password B")
I can download NEW apps with the NEW Apple ID
Because of all of the above circumstances, I can no longer update OLD apps with the OLD Apple ID OR with the NEW Apple ID (since their change)
I spent a lot of money on apps and I should be able to get continued free updates for them (this isn't the software developer's fault)
Any ideas?
Seriously... forcing a password format to an existing account? Thank you Apple.

kitty-mom,
Maybe some help here.
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5652
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3970
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4185

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