Lion doesn't allow me to activate "Mail & Notes"

My AppleID is a .Mac, then MobileMe ID. It was inactive for some time. Now I logged in on icloud.com with that ID. It told me, I have to activate "Mail & Notes" in the System Settings of Lion, but Lion doesn't want to activate "Mail & Notes". It just keeps spinng on "starting..".
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I can fetch my email over a Windows PC and by manually configuring the mail.app, however I can't send emails over the Mail.App, because it keeps telling me the password is wrong.
So for now, I can't activate "Mail & Notes" on Lion and can't access Email on icloud.com.
Apple Chat doesn't have a clue.
Any Ideas?

Hi everyone,
after 3 weeks, nothing changed for me, I can't activate Mail & Notes for iCloud with my mac, and iOS devices.
I have a @mac.com Apple ID.
If any apple techs pass by this post, please help !
I will just try to re-explain the issue:
1/ on mac
I try to activate mail and a windows is poping where I can see a textfield to enter a new me.com mail. The fact is that this windows disappears instantly, I can't do nothing about that. Then I see the iCloud settings pane with a "starting..." at the right of the mail activation line and an activity indicator spinning endlessly. If I quit the pref app and come back, the mail is activated (but in real, it is not).
2/ on iOS (iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S)
I try to activate mail, it asks me if I want to create a new @me.com mail adress. I say yes and a popup alert is displayed saying that there was an issue and I need to try later. (it's been 3 weeks).
My conclusion:
My @mac.com was a free mac.com adress long time ago, it became a iChat only ID when I stop using the .mac service.
I then tried with this same account Mobile Me during 1 year, I did not remember (it was a couple of years ago) if I was using a @me.com alias or not. I then stop mobile me membership and I still had the chance to be able to use this @mac.com adress for iChat.
I assume everything is related and that is why Apple had an issue with olds @mac.com + @me.com.
Is there anyone in the same position than me ? Is my only way to create a new apple id from scratch and loose all my app /music / books history ?
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