Can't log into my @me/icloud id account. Help?

Question

OK, here's my challenge to you amazing Geniuses:
I created my itunes apple ID about 8 years ago, so therefore it is just my name. I know my password for this and use it daily to purchase apps. When I bought my iphone 4s a year ago, they created a new @me account to use for icloud. I have NEVER used this account or email associated with it. I never hooked my iphone or my ipad up with icloud. Today I downloaded the new IOS 6.0.1 software to my ipad only, and it was prompting me to sync into icloud. Apparently my @me account is now a new @icloud account. The problem is, I can't get into either one. I have no clue what they made my password for my @me account. I've never even checked my email for this account. When I try all of the possible ways to retrieve my @me Apple ID from the apple wesite, I come to the same 2 options...1) get a link to reset my password via email (when I click on this I don't get anything sent to my normal primary or rescue emails...if they are sending it to my @me email account that is just pointless seeing that I can't remember my password)...and 2) answer the security question (which when I try to answer it to the best of my ability it doesn't match and there are NO other options).
So my BIGGER question in this mess is...can I change my old Apple ID (the one I actually use daily and has all of my purchases and music on it) to be an acceptable email ID so I only have one Apple ID to be used for iTunes, and iCloud? I tried to follow Apple's promt to tell me to merge my simple old ID with my primary (msn) email address. However when I click on "submit", NOTHING happens. When I try to change it to my primary email by typing it in, I get a red alert saying that I can't change it to an already existing Apple domain...which is ridiculous because it's used for that original ID, and they are the ones telling me to merge the two!
OR....can I just create a new Apple icloud id/email altogether and forget that the other one they created for me exists? Since I never used it or icloud for anything, would I be able to do this? It does however bother me that there is a @me/@icloud account with my name on it that I can't get into.

Answer 1

Hi!
I encountered a problem a few weeks ago which is a bit like yours. In my case my Apple ID stopped working after I upgraded to Mountain Lion. I finally found out it was because of the fact that my Apple ID has in fact been an alias within my much older MobileMe/iCloud account. And they weren't able to merge or reset the account at first. It took me a lot of mails and a few calls to get them to resetting the account and changing my Apple ID (for the Apple Store, iTunes, etc.) to a different, non-iCloud related email adress.
Anyway, maybe you can call the Apple Support and kindly ask them to reset the password for this ominous @me.com account so you can finally start using it.
Did you try logging into iCloud using your adress with the appendix @me.com because not everybody has got the @icloud.com ending yet. Technically it's no problem to create a new iCloud account. I can understand though that you'd like to get "your name" back .