Old email [.mac account email]

How to I get rid of an OLD .mac account email that no longer exists and keeps popping up now and then?
The old email keeps popping up at the Apple store, and on my computer [occasionally] asking me to authorizes some songs on my computers. I suppose I purchased some songs with that old mac account. I would then authorize using my current and active account information.
Today, I get that authorization message again for the iPhone, with the old email, so I changed it to my current account info, as I have done in the past, but today it's not working.
I happened when I sinked my iPhone, so I ended up not authorizing those 9 songs.

Got it to authorize again using the older account email for those particular songs. I guess I'm stuck with that authorization account email, even though it's no longer in use.

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Hi. I discovered today that all my email has been deleted from my mail account. i use .mac and suspect (though she denies it fervently) that my 11 year old has done this accidentally, which I guess means she must have just blown through the usual 'are you sure?' warnings...
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Old email [.mac account email]

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