.Mac multiple accounts password failures?

I have been looking for help on a password trouble I experienced starting Wednesday night.
I have a new .Mac account for my university teaching in addition to my personal .Mac account. Following methods in this forum, I have been using iWebSites to manage multiple sites on both .Mac accounts, using the .Mac Preference Panel trick, switching from one account to another when needed.
After I used Backup Wednesday evening of all my iWeb sites to my personal .Mac account, I cannot switch back to my university .Mac account.
It is password failure.
In addition, when I bought the new account last week, I deliberately entered a false day and month of birth. I usually just use Jan. 1 for that kind of thing, but not always. The password help for .Mac accounts requires either access to the email account in question OR a "secret question" and answer, which I know, but only if you authenicate the day and month of birth in the account. I cannot remember the phony day and month I entered last week!
So I am slightly hosed.
I have tried most of the tactics in the earlier thread,
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=949682&tstart=0
but to no avail.
Also, I have a trouble report through the .Mac support site, but have not talked directly to a human being about it.
Advice welcome.

I used an alternate route to
(a) speak to a person at Apple
(b) about .Mac account re-set.
I went through the customer service branch on the 800 MY APPLE line, and then selected help with a previous purchase. This got me to a person. Then I used my invoice info to autheticate my request, and they pushed my help request over to the .Mac Help Guy through their internal network. Bingo.
One of the other Apple phone line people said that the .Mac Help Guy really is one guy running four computers! I do not want to believe that but who knows!

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