Migrating inactive MobileMe email account to iCloud

I have a MobileMe email account that was inactive at the point I installed 10.7.2 and activated iCloud. I was hoping I'd be able to use the same @me.com email address I had with MobileMe with iCloud. However, when I used the MobileMe "move to iCloud" option (http://me.com/move I think), iCloud tells me I have to set up a me.com email address. When I try to use the address I had with MobileMe, iCloud tells me that address is already registered (it was, by me with MobileMe!) and I have to select another. Is there any way I can use my existing (although previously inactive) @me.com email address with iCloud?

Is there any way I can use my existing (although previously inactive) @me.com email address with iCloud?
If the account expired or you canceled it, you will have to create a new account.
Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions
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I had a Mobileme family pack and at one point i was using a second email address.
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Now I would like to use that old address as an icloud alias but don't know how.
Any ideas?

Thanks for your reply.
I have also had a chat with apple support and discovered the same thing. If you had a family pack on mobileme and had used sub account @me email addresses and then reassigned them they are in effect held forever out of use too everyone for use with mail. They can however be used as an apple ID. Though I can't work out how despite the instructions below.
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A: You can re-activate this account, ******@me.com, by signing into iCloud preferences with the username and password to this account. When you turn on mail for that account it will require that you create a new @me email address because this one is inactive and was not active when you set it up with iCloud.
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Strange....
I have two MobileMe mail accounts. Only one of them moved to iCloud when I downloaded Lion 7.2 and the other stayed a "MobileMe" account. I can't figure out how to convert the remaining MobileMe account to an iCloud account.
I've tried setting it up in the Mail program by manually adding it as a iCloud account, but it doesn't work.
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Are you using an @mac.com Apple ID, e.g., [email protected]? Try [email protected]; my daughter had the same issue with a recently created account & I found the following somewhere:
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