How can I disable an old, defunct, email account?

I cannot disable an old email address/account on my iPad (original) account. In iTunes, my iMac, my Macbook Air, & my iPad 2 all have the same current email address/account but when I try to change to this current email on my original iPad so that it aligns w/ these others, it says this account is already in use. Well, of course it is!! Help?!

Brendan, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately neither of these helped. There are no checkboxes ticked for Safari (and I only use Firefox, generally) and I am able to sign in after signing off. But when I go to sign in here I get the [email protected] filled in as in the attached. And I have been using [email protected] as my defsult email and also my Apple ID user name since before there was an iCloud. So what now?

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The old email address no longer exists - I haven't used it in a year probably and I no longer have the account. I logged into the appleid website and there is no trace of the old email address so there is nothing that can be deleted or changed there. On the iPad there is no trace of the old email address so nothing can be deleted there either. I have updated the iPad software and the same problem comes right back. Every 2 seconds I am asked to log in using the old non-existent email. The device is currently useless.
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Nice idea - I tried it but it doesn't seem to work (at least not for me).
So here are the details in case, you can spot something more I could do....
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AppleID (to make iTunes purchases) was [email protected]
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