ICloud MobileMe IMAP rejected password

Greetings,
After moving my MobileMe account to iCloud, I am now getting an error message in mail that states:
The MobileMe IMAP server “p99-imap.mail.me.com” rejected the password for user “xxxxxxx”
It keeps popping up a window asking me to enter my me.com password, but won't accept my password.
I googled this error and see a bunch of threads here and other places about problems with IMAP passwords and this same error message back in 2008/2009.  But I've never seen this error before, and since it happed just after the transition to iCloud, I suspect it is realted.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

My iPhone and iPad are working fine, only place I'm getting the error is on my MacBook.
In the mail preferences under "Accounts", I now see two accounts, one for MobileMe and one from iCloud.
I'm going to give things a day or so to settle down and see if the servers catch up.  I'm sure they are buried with the volume at the moment.  I'm not ready to delete my MobileMe account... I've got a backup, but don't want to lose anything.

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