HT5225 How do I change my mail settings to receive/send to from iCloud

Question

It says in this article:  that you can keep your .mac and .me email addresses, even if your systems do not support icloud, as long as you move before 30 June.  "If your contacts or calendars are only available on me.com, you must export your contacts and calendar data before June 30, 2012." before you move to icloud from a non supported OS (mine is 10.5.8.)  I have done this.  All the emails in and sent are now in Mail but Mail is rejecting any changes to the Incoming Mail server detail (Mail >Preferences>General).  I have already set MobileMe to NOT synch (in my MobileMe account) but my iCloud has a MobileMe IMAP tag and always reverts to mail.mac.com from imap.mail.me.com, even though I have deselected and even deleted that old server.  Before I am asked, yes I am saving the settings, but when I go back 'in' there they are again. 
icloud is working fine (but without any contacts of course) when I am accessing through safari.  I would like to have a mail account locally into which I could import my 'Address Book' and from where I could send and receive emails (like before).
There must be a way because otherwise Apple would not have sent me an email (like they did last night) which states: 
You can now retain your me.com or mac.com address and keep your email working after MobileMe ends, even if you don’t meet iCloud requirements.
I have tried getting Entourage to work as well, no luck yet! 
Thank you. 
ps I can't upgrade to either Snow Leopard and then Lion because I am a photographer and my equipment (2 printers, 2 scanners) although old works brilliantly well with 10.5.8. but would be defunct if upgraded. 

Answer 1

hello, unfortunately when you search for this error message it appears that it might be related to malware that is active on your system and blocks file downloads.
please try to run a full scan of your system with different security tools like the [http://www.malwarebytes.org/products/malwarebytes_free free version of malwarebytes], [http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/ adwcleaner], [http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/default.aspx microsoft safety scanner] & [http://www.kaspersky.com/security-scan kaspersky security scan].
if you can't download/execute any of those tools, you might want to try to boot windows into safe mode with networking support first and see if it works then: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/start-computer-safe-mode#start-computer-safe-mode=windows-7
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