Can't use old appleID for icloud mail on iOS Devices

So I thought I had it beat, finally. I thought I would just make life easy by using my appleID (a nonfunctioning mac.com address with which I have continued to use to make appstore and itunes purchases) to set up icloud, and then create me.com addresses within that account.
I fought with it all day and finally beat it into submission today, after I discovered that the reason I could not sent mail was nothing to do with me or the account, but to do with the smtp servers not functioning as they should. Its all working really well on my computer. It never occurred to me that this would be a problem on my iphone and ipad. These revert to the AppleID which cannot accept email. *Hitting self upside da head*.
Anybody got a suggestion for this particular problem before I run screaming down the road, tearing out my hair and threatening to go Android instead? (j/k)

I guess there isn't one. I've gone back to using my mobileme account and sent out yet another email to my friends to rescind the previous one.
AND discovered that Apple has not taken into account that MERGING contact lists will create duplicates. No option to replace... or to NOT duplicate.
Its INSANE!!

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