New apple id ends access to itunes on iphone

iphone 4 iOS 7.1.2
How can i get my itunes library back on my iphone? i had to change my apple id - not my email address - just the apple id. its my same account same name same address same credit card number, i just changed the id from my email address to a name, and updated the password. its still the same email address associated with the account from the ver beginning. i thought i got everything taken care of by updating the info in my iphone settings. its updated so i can post on these discussion groups, buy stuff on the app store and so i thought i was good to go. so i go to itunes on my iPhone and it is empty - no content. i learn that i must update my info on the icloud settings separately. icloud insists i use an email address, not my apple id. it doesn't want my apple id. it says it must be an email address. so i type in the email address associated with the account - but icloud doesn't recognize the new password associated with the account. it only recognizes my old password that went with my old apple id. so now i am stuck. i can't listen to anything in my itunes library on my iphone, but i can buy stuff all day long with my apple id on the app store or the itunes store from the same phone - but it doesn't recognize my itunes library in icloud - stuff i paid for with that very same account.
answers i have seen to similar questions on this topic don't seem to be relevant to my problem
thank you

where? in the manage my apple id settings: appleid.apple.com
this situation is confusing, at least to me it is.
i started out in 2007 creating an apple id when i got my first mac book. my apple id was my name. i used it to do everything from posting inquiries to this discussion forum to making purchases from the itunes store. a few years later all of a sudden i was required to use my email address instead of my official apple id when i made purchases from the itunes store and later the app store. i was no longer using my official "apple id" which was my name, all that was ever asked for was my email address - as though all of a sudden it was my apple id.
last week i tried to log on to this discussion group for the first time in several years. i couldn't log in. i was trying to log in using my email address since that's all apple wants me to use anymore instead of the name i created as my apple id. it didn't work for logging into this group. i found out through customer support (on the phone) that i had to use the apple id that was my name - the original one (although i never actually changed anything, i had never bothered using the "name" since itunes stared requiring the use of an email address instead. since it worked with the same password t i wasn't sure why i ever needed to have created the apple id in the first place)
customer support then advised that i make sure that my email address is associated with the apple id that is my name and that the email isn't used for any other accounts. its not. i logged into manage my apple id and made sure it was listed as the name i created way back in 2007 (which is what customer support verified is still the apple id i had associated with my email address). the only thing i updated was my billing address for my credit card. ever since then itunes on my iphone has no content.
what must i change/update in order to access my library that was on there yesterday?
i don't doubt this is confusing to anyone reading this. - i guess my only other question is, why did apple let me create an apple id that worked fine and then all of a sudden decide it must be an email address and then just last week tell me i need to use the name again? i thought the point of apple id was to use ONE NAME. if its just my email address then why don't they call it that instead?

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