Can't verify Apple ID to use with Find My iPhone

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I've been trying to activate the Find My iPhone on my phone (following instructions from here: http://www.apple.com/iphone/find-my-iphone-setup/). But my iPhone keeps popping up a box saying:
Verify Your Account
This Apple ID's email address cannot be verified. Change your Apple ID's email address at appleid.apple.com to sign in to MobileMe.
I then logged onto appleid.apple.com and tried to verify the email and it too said it can't. It's my personal email address that I use to log into iTunes and other stuff. Why would it not be able to verify it? It's a Gmail account and it's typed correctly.
I posted this question on Apple's forum and got no replies. Thanks.

I had this exact same problem with my daughter iPod touch and I knew I was doing everything correctly because I had already done 2 iPhones and 2 other iPod touches the same evening. After trying for about 3 hours and just getting frustrated I decided to take it to Apple the following morning. What I found out is when i did the last update it missed adding a couple of "packets" so all that had to be done was a complete reset (on iTunes) which completely wiped out everything she had on it and then I just did a sync to put it all back on. Only tok a couple of minutes and everything was perfect after that. It sounds like the same thing happened to you. Oh by the way Apple said that I may have just lost internet connection for a brief second and that is what probably caused it.

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