HELP! I lost all my passwords!

Yesterday, I went around every single website I'd ever signed up for and changed that password due to Heartbleed. I decided that even though I didn't really need to, I should use iCloud Keychain to not only store my passwords, but to create those secure passwords for me. So, I went around, changed each password, and each password looked something like this: ho5_rui4_4uiwo_r4hiw.
Now, that's imossible to memorize, but I trusted Keychain to memorize it for me. So every website I went on, it would fill it in, no problem there.
Did that work? Sure it worked!
Today, I finished this process of changing the passwords and making Keychain memorize them. Then, as a final step to preventing hackers once and for all, I changed my MAC ACCOUNT PASSWORD. *gasp* *gasp*.
That was my mistake. Immediately, all 25 or so of my iCloud passwords dissapeared from Safari and my Keychain in Keychain Access. I tried to change my password again, but nothing could fix it.
So all I did was lose all my passwords? pfftt.. No big deal. I still had some of them on my iPad, so all I had to do was go to each website and reset them. Thankfully, I never changed the password to my email, so that should only take me 3 hours.
So iCloud Keychain, within its first 24 hours of service, had failed me epicly. I try to reset Keychain on my computer. I uncheck the box, recheck it, and they don't come back.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM: I can no longer remove my iCloud account association with my computer. The box won't uncheck, I can;t delete the keychain, and I can't sign out of iCloud. What I was thinking of doing was creating a new account to use with iCloud. I would reset the passwords and everyhing would work ok. BUT I CAN'T DO THAT? Now there's a bigger problem: My MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks, is stuck with my currently-not-working iCloud account?
What do I do?
PLEASE HELP ME! My warranty has expired and I don't want to lose everything on my Mac! My passwords for every website ever are enough grief!
Thank you so much in advance.
Please note: This story is long and took you a while to read probably, but I did not make anything up and I can prove it with screenshots.

You do know that if the websites haven't fixed their servers you'll want to reset the passwords after they do so.
You can to the following web site and test the websites you use most, i.e. banks, shopping, etc., to see if they've been fixed: Qualys SSL Labs - Projects / SSL Server Test
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