Multiple Apple IDs causing headache!

[I can't find a suitable category to post this in - iCloud on Mac seems closest as it's linked to the AppleID - if someone can find a better place to put this and is able to move it (or let me know and I'll re-post there) I would be grateful]
I have three separate Apple IDs. I only wanted one but got very confused as the first one didn't seem to work right and I ended up creating two more in desperation.
I understand I can't delete old Apple IDs (why?!) but I just want to get one working properly.
The ideal solution (although I don't think this is possible) would be to delete all my Apple IDs, and set up my iPhone, MacBook Pro and iMac 20 inch to use a brand-new properly configured Apple ID. I would also want the Apple IDs to work on these Apple discussions pages.
At present, I have to use my second Apple ID to use the Apple discussion pages as the primary one fails to let me log on properly because it asks me to choose a screen name and then fails saying I already have another Apple ID sharing the same e-mail address.
I'm occasionally having problems with iTunes where it won't sync the iPhone properly claiming that the computer is not authorised when it actually is! I seem to have fixed this temporarily by de-authorising and re-authorising a number of times. This may or may not be something to do with the Apple ID problem–I simply don't know.
Does anybody know how I can get close to my ideal solution as possible? If I can't remove old Apple IDs, I just need to effectively remove as much information from the ones I don't want and properly configured one I do want. I also need to ensure that the numerous apps downloaded to the iPhone from the App Store will still sync to iTunes properly.
Sorry to be so vague; it's only because I'm getting so confused about this but I find it difficult to explain the problem!
Any advice would be greatly appreciated; thank you guys.

Each Apple ID must have a different associated email address - the easiest workaround is to get a free one from Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail.
You cannot transfer purchases between iTunes accounts so you don't want to start changing the login there: but the ID for iTunes doesn't have to be the same as the ID for iCloud if you are going to use that.
As you don't have any points you have nothing to choose by changing your ID for these forums: change the associated email address to something else if that's the cause of the problem.
The iTunes authorisation problem doesn't sound as if it's related to the multiple IDs - it woudn't know anything ahout the others - the best place to ask would be in the iTunes forum.

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I just got a new iPad for christmas and I'm setting it up now. Turns out I have two apple IDs: the one I actually used (which I dumbly keyed to a spam email address years ago) and one associated with my real email address. The one associated with my real email address has no content associated; that's not the problem. But I'm trying to set up iMessage to speak to the email address I actually use and when I do i get an error message that reads as follows:
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Each Apple ID must have a different associated email address - the easiest workaround is to get a free one from Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail.
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As you don't have any points you have nothing to choose by changing your ID for these forums: change the associated email address to something else if that's the cause of the problem.
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Thank you for the details of the issue you are experiencing with the emails you have been receiving. I would be concerned about this too. I found a resource that provides some good information about identifying and reporting emails like the ones you are recieving.
I recommend reviewing the full article, but this specific section provides steps for reporting these emails:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4933
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I happened to stop at the Apple store yesterday for a separate issue and had a discussion about iCloud. Seems like this is how iCloud works (also, there's another thread on this forum that explains it well).
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