I need to merge my apple accounts to get proper function of iCloud and iWork apps

I like so many people now have two apple ids.  Becase I was a mobile me subsriber and I had a itunes account.  The migration from me.com to icloud.com created another apple id. 
So if I want my apps and music i have purchased over years i have to use one id and if I want my mail (years of messages)and calander and the storage for which i have paid for i need the second apple id.
Apple allows you to sign into icloud with one id and the itunes store with another which although is a pain did work.
Until I bought the pages app for my ipad in the app store with the account that all of my itunes purchases are contained in.  For me the major reason of this app purchase is to get my documents into icloud and readable on my phone.
Problem:  Since the app was purchased with an apple id other than the icloud id icloud dosent know it exist so it wont sync the files to icloud.  When im logged into icloud and click on the iwork section i get prompted to get pages which i alredey have and when it takes my to the app store it tells me that i have downloaded it.  An annoying cycle of not "just working".  *** Apple?
Will you please remedy this situation by allowing me to merge my ids.  And please let me use an id (user name)of my choice.  Why does it have to be an email address?
Braden

You are really talking to the wrong people here. We are just other users like yourself, posing questions and answers to issues. You should contact Apple at the appropriate phone number on this page. Possibly they can straighten it out.
Best of luck.

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