ICloud on iPhone 5 has wrong email-deleting account doesn't work

I've been searching the boards all day - I just updated to iOS 6.1.4 to try and fix this, but nothing happened. I try to log into iCloud onto my phone, and a pop up asks me to enter my password for an old apple id/email address (my old college email.) But the only account that shows up in my iCloud settings.. and ANYWHERE on my phone... is my new, correct one. I don't know where it's pulling the old email from!

i took it to the genius bar - the support employee told me the issue started with me creating an appleid with my old email, buying all my apps & using itunes under that id... and then when i tried to create my NEW appleid years later, i didn't properly 1) transfer all the old apps properly to my new appleid and refresh them, and 2) didn't delete my old appleid.
the problem is i'm 100% certain that i deleted my old appleid, because i REMEMBER doing it, and now if i go in to adjust my account settings through apple, the old appleid doesn't show up. it's only on my phone. eventually he just restored my phone to the factory settings, and i started fresh entering my new appleid into a "blank" iphone. if you end up doing this, make sure you backup as much data as possible to iTunes or your computer or anywhere beforehand, because you lose eeevvverrrythingg. because of the issue with my appleid, i couldn't backup to iCloud.
good luck, r88sla ! if you go to the genius bar, i hope you get someone who wasn't as ridiculously condescending as the employee who assisted me. with just a little more attention, i was hoping someone could have found a solution other than wiping my iphone and starting over again...

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