Cannot change primary email because password is no...

I need to change my primary email.
Had no problem to add a new email address in the email settings.
But when I try to set the new email address as primary email I am prompted to re-confirm the change by entering my password again. After hitting enter I am always getting an error message: either "400 bad request" or "wrong password" - but it is the right password. I logged in with it before.
Exactly follow the steps from the FAQ - but #7. Enter your existing password, then click Enter." failed...
https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA96/how-do-i-change-my-email-address-or-add-another-email-address-...
I am using MacOSX 10.6.8 and tried to change this setting after logging in with Firefox 14.0.1 and Safari 5.1.7 - failed with both browsers with the same error. Must be either an error with your webpage or in the skype account administration.

I found a solution on my own. Skype did not answer me to solve my problem - but: it is their problem: it's a glitch in the Skype webpage or password system! And from my point of view a lack in the matter of how the software developers pay attention to security issues because the problem (but not the solution) was mentioned a few times in the support network....
As I found out the exact problem is:
If you have a skype user password with special characters (e.g. & ! ? * etc.) it will not be accepted by the window (or the script that checks your password) that pops up to re-confirm (with your password) that you want to change you primary email address. Well, and I had a password with special characters
Not very good from a security point of view... as we are always taught that we should use passwords that are a mixture of UPPER and lower case letters, numbers and special characters to gain maximum security.
That means: in the case to change your primary email address Skype does not allow maximum security. And this case is a very personal case - see a story what happens if it’s to easy to change email addresses: How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/
Solution (provisional - a proper one has to come from Skype):
1. Change your password into a simple one with letters & numbers only like doUh8me
2. Then go directly to the process of changing you primary email address
3. After that immediately change your password again into a complicated mixture incl special characters etc. like hELLOu@SKYpe!?M8BEuseFULLtomakePW0RDSm0resecure?!?
And please Mr. & Mrs. Skype: get in a hurry to let us use a maximum secure password everywhere where we need to enter it... thank you!

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Hi there,
Getting bloody frustrated with this so hopefully we can fix it somehow with someone's help here.
I keep trying to change my primary email address, and when I click save I get prompted for my password. I try my current Skype password - the one I used to log in and change everything else... it does not work. I try every other password off memory, and none work.
What gives??? This is driving me nuts!
Thanks in advance for any help!

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Try updating your emial address via the Skype client itself via the menu "Skype - Profile - Edit Profile...".
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