Mobileme Apple ID disabled. Only used for email/contacts/calendar.

Hi all.
My Apple ID has been disabled for the 3rd time. I have never used my mobileme Apple ID for any iTunes purchases. I've only used it for email. I use my yahoo.com Apple ID for purchases. To clarify, I've used my yahoo email address as my Apple ID for purchases. I don't understand why it would be an issue for an account that was never used for any types of purchases whatssoever.
The spate of problems I've had with this account have been neverending. Email forwarding rules being abruptly changed, deleted contacts when I transferred from mobileme, delayed email, and now this.
Is there any end in sight?

Hi,
Yes, thanks for asking, I switched to icloud.com, I am aware it was mandatory to switch to iCloud after June 30 2012, so I decided to embrace the change and took the plunge a few days after iCloud was announced. Thats when the problems began.
The issue has been persistent ever since the data hack was announced by the media. I reset my AppleID password last night and it wouldn't accept my new password, but accepted the old one.

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