IMessage not working is 'waiting for activation'- help!

Hi,
Last night I changed my apple ID password on my phone. It says 'waiting for activation' on both imessage and facetime. Meanwhile I did some tests and I sent an imessage to a fellow imessage user but it sent from my email rather than my phonenumber - i dont want this!
When I go into 'settings' - 'messages' - 'receive at' (which has my current and correct email address) and click on 'my apple ID' and go to 'view account'
I see my current email with my OLD password (I can tell by the amount of dots) when I enter the one I changed it to last night it says 'you must choose a password that you have not used within the last year'.
So I have 2 different passwords being used on my apple ID/iphone.... The OLD one which is stuck on my message and the one I just used to log into my apleID to ask this question (the new one)
And I cant cant change this current one back to the old one to sync it up again because it gives me the message 'you must choose a password that you have not used within the last year'
I dont mind changing the password to a whole new one - but how do I do that so it syncs with all systems (imessage, facetime, App store etc) HELLLPPPP
Thanks

The following gives instructions for that error message, including to contact Apple support if you've tried all of the steps shown and waited 24 hours: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

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