Has anyone successfully reset their Skype account ...

I've posted on this before, but none of you good people have shared your thoughts on this. Unfortunately, Skype Customer Service don't appear to have a "standard response" e-mail template to address my problem.
Nine days after I first reported that my Skype account has been hacked I am still going round in circles, with "standard response" e-mails from the Skype Customer Support people asking me to do something which I have already tried but which was not the correct thing to do to reset my Skype Account password.
My Skype Account password has been changed by a hacker.
My Microsoft Account, which is linked to Skype, has not been hacked and the password has been changed (three times in a week ..... see below).
I need to change only my Skype account password but the password reset links take me through to Microsoft and I end up changing my Microsoft account password.  This does not resolve the Skype Account Password situation.
Has anyone successfully reset their unknown or forgotten password from a Skype account which has been linked to their Microsoft account?
Does anyone know whether Skype themselves can unlink a Skype Account from a Microsoft Account? Unfortunately I can only do it with the password I do not have!!!  I feel that this could be one way of changing my password without being redirected to the Microsft Account Password Reset option.

Well, it's me again.  However, I now have a new name on the Community Forum as I have had to re-register as I no longer seem to exist.
I contacted Skype Customer Support via their web chat service and the operator unlinked my Skype Account (which, if you've read any other posts from my original name alison01326) you will recall was hacked and I was unable to make a change to the password as I kept getting through to the Microsoft account password change which was not the password that needed changing.
I would have said, that if you need to unlink the two accounts, just ask.  But now I am not so sure.  My Skype Account (the one which was hacked, and still has someone else's password on it) has vanished, taking with it £10 of Skype Credit and the World Minutes which I receive monthly as part of Office 365.
I now have five or six different customer service references to quote, and not only can I not get my account verified (as my memory doesn't stretch back to when I first had a Skype account) I also appear to have lost £10 and a valuable "free" service.
Have been in tears over this as 11 days have passed since the hacking and nothing positive has been achieved.  Does anyone else have the same experiences, and what was the outcome?

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