Deleting iCloud Account on iPhone

I have an iPhone 4s and upgraded it to iOS 7. For whatever reason the account that iCloud assumed was one that I no longer use, so I would like to use my new one - it keeps prompting me for the password on the old one, which makes it all the more irritating. What makes it confusing is that I have all of the iCloud sync options checked (essentially, everything I have on my phone syncs to iCloud). When I go to "Settings > iCloud" and click "Delete Account" it returns the following: "If you delete your account, all documents and photo stream photos stored in iCloud will be deleted from this phone." Does that mean that if I delete it then all my photos will be gone from my phone? How do I delete it but keep the photos, then add a new account so everything that is currently on my iPhone will sync on the new account?
Thanks.

Go here:
https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/
Change back to your old Apple ID. Save the changes...DO NOT sign out. Go to your phone & see if you can delete the iCloud account now. If so, change your ID back to your new ID, save changes, then sign out.

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