I have two apple ids

one from years ago which is the one I use for iTunes and a me.com one. Totally confused about which I should use for iCloud. When I installed ios5 on iPhone I used me.com then could not access previous purchased apps etc but iMessage is running via that, so when I installed ios5 to my iPad I used my old yahoo one, now I can access apps but cannot use a synced I message as it runs from two seperate emails.
Any idea what I should do, which I should use etc?
Thanks.

You cannot get rid of the other one but you could just stop using it.

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Our Apple ID Account Security Team may be able to help you with this:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5699
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