Find My Friends "Notifications Not Available"

Was wondering if anyone has had this issue:
When using Find My Friends, I am unable to use geo-fencing/ "Notify Me" is greyed out, and when I click on "Me", and then "Notify", I get a popup with the following message, "Notificatons Not Available".
Here is my setup:
iPhone 4S
iOS 6
A .me account that has been migrated from the old ME system
Steps I have taken to trouble-shoot:
1. Sign in from another icloud account. That account works fine, so I know it's nothing with my iPhone notifications.
2. Try my account on a different device (new iPad and iPhone 4)... my account does not work, but others do.
3. Tried signing in using my new ".icloud" email address, to the same effect as if I logged in with my ".me" address (same error)
4. Created a new account, and it worked fine. I would like to avoid this route, as I don't want to change my email address...
I am fairly certain it is a setting somewhere in my iCloud account, but I have looked everywhere (every possible notification is turned on) and can't find anything...
The other people I am trying to locate DO work, are updated, and are all using proper hardware, etc, etc... I have followed all the suggestions in other threads, but it seems my issue is slightly different.
Has anyone else had this? Thoughts?
Thanks in advance

Hey Kurt,
Nope, still no solution for me. I know it's not just an upgrade issue, tho. I totally wiped my phone and installed iOS 6 "clean" and it didn't work for me with my account. But when I tried a different account, it worked fine, so I'm pretty sure it's something to do with the account itself... I think maybe becasue it's old, I had it way back before iCloud and it's been migrated.
Hopefully someone has a solution; I talked to the "Genuis" bar and they didn't have a clue...

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