IMessage no longer recognises my email address

When iOS5 came out I successfully used iMessage on both the iPhone and the iPad. The same conversation appeared on both devices as expected. After about a week it stopped working on the iPad. Yesterday I turned off the settings and then tried to turn it back on but I am getting the message that the email address can't be verified. I press the button asking for a verification email to be sent but no such email is received, although i have today received an email at that address confirming an itunes purchase. Logged in to my one and only Apple account and there is the email address with a green tick and marked verified.
Today I checked the settings on my iPhone and when I touched the email link it started attempting to verify and I got the same problem. I then added a new email to receive iMessages on the iPhone. After receiving an email with a link to verify I was able to add that as a replacement email address on the iPhone but the iPad won't verify that one either.
Any suggestions for how to proceed? I would like to be able to iMessage on the iPad again

Yes it is. I did have a lot of other tunes bought with my mobile me account that I paid the extra .29 or whatever to unlock them. When I try to play the AAC tunes purchased with the old account, the message says "This computer is not authoized.....you must authorize using the account xxxx.nyc.rr.com (which has been defunkt for years).  When I enter the password it says I already authorized 5 computers (still on the old account with computers I know longer have.
yesterday, I de authorized all computers (3 of which are no longer with us though all used me.com) and started reauthorizing the 3 I presently own using my mobile me account.
I can't deauthorize the computers with the xxx.nyc.rr.com account because I don't have them anymore.
Is there a way I can merge all previous email addresses with my current me.com account? Then I could deauthorize and reauthorize my current computers.
I had several macs with my old account and 3 currently with my me.com.
Hope this is not to wordy... I'm trying to be thorough...I know, it's a bit confusing, at least to me.
Thanks.

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