I've wasted the entire weekend upgrading to Lion to use ICloud, only to find iC is a joke.

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I thought, from what I read in the hyped advertising, that all my email a/c's would be in iCloud and sync betw my iMac/MBP/iPad & iPhone.  NOT SO.  I never used mobile me, but it forced me to transfer my unused mobile me a/c to iCloud, in order to bring iCloud up.  Than, no ability to transfer any of the email a/c's I do use over to iCloud from On My Mac.  I read something about iCloud not handling POP email a/c's; but it isn't even handling IMAP accounts.
iCal calendars have been a frustration trying to get them to sync between the iMac and mobile devices (and, Yes, everything has been updated to lates os).
iTunes is encouraging back up to iCloud, but most of what I have, particularly email accounts and calendars, aren't accepted by iCloud.  So, the only sane thing I can do is stay syncing with iTunes and shutting down iCloud on all devices.
There insufficient detail in the help dialogues to resolve any of the problems I've encountered so far.
So, I wasted weekend to do all the upgrades which included spending 5 hours on the phone with tech support do to various problems post upgrade to Lion.  Instead of getting a great new service, iCloud, I got dark rain cloud.
Apple, I hope you're going back to the drawing board to make iCloud a real productivity tool.

Answer 1

I thought, from what I read in the hyped advertising, that all my email a/c's would be in iCloud and sync betw my iMac/MBP/iPad & iPhone.  NOT SO.
Where, anywhere, does it state that iCloud will keep "all your email a/c's" in sync?
It say's, and I quote:
Mail that delivers. Free.
When you set up iCloud, you get a free me.com email account. iCloud automatically pushes new email messages to all your devices, so your inbox is up to date everywhere you check it.
How could you interpret that to mean all your existing, non-me.com, external email accounts?
Than, no ability to transfer any of the email a/c's I do use over to iCloud from On My Mac.
Er, yes. You can do that if you wish. It's a called drag and drop between mailboxes. Not hard.
There insufficient detail in the help dialogues to resolve any of the problems I've encountered so far.
Did it occur to you to look at the iCloud Support pages? They're pretty comprehensive.
Apple, I hope you're going back to the drawing board to make iCloud a real productivity tool.
Or maybe, you could just read about the service you're signing up for, and not expect it to do things it was never advertised as doing?