How to make a "secondary" iCloud account my "primary"

When I migrated from mobileme I logged in with my mobile me account and migrated to iCloud which opened up my "primary icloud" account (me.com) on my IMAC this was back in Oct. After I was certain that all the bugs had been worked out of Icloud I then migrated my laptop over to icloud I was having trouble doing so I went to the Apple Store and they set me up using my apple ID (yahoo.com). I did not receive any information that I was setting up a "secondary account" at the time. My laptop has the most up to date calendar (yahoo.com) which all my employees are synced to. I have always considered my appleID (yahoo.com) account to be my primary account and it would take a lot of work to convert my calendar to the (me.com) account. Anyone out there know how to convert a "secondary" icloud account to a "primary" icloud account? Whenever I log in using my yahoo account I get a message stating my yahoo.com account is logged on to another icloud account and I need to delete it from mail, contacts, &calendars and sign in again. After I attempt to turn off all of the me.com icloud and sign in with my yahoo account I still get the "this is not your primary account message"

Thanks Again Roger: Funny thing but once I ask the question and submit the "more like this" always seem to have the answer.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4020 says:
To change a secondary account to a primary account
Choose Apple () menu > System Preferences > Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Delete the secondary account.
In System Preferences > iCloud, sign out of your primary account.
Log in with the secondary account that you want to be your primary account.
Note: These steps will not change any of the data stored in your iCloud account.
Additional Information
Because many iCloud services only work on the primary account, it is recommended that you use the same primary account on all devices you use with iCloud. If you have different accounts logged in as the primary account on different devices, those services will not push data between your devices.

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