OS X upgrade to Lion & iCloud has completely messed up my desktop and macbook?

Recently upgraded to OS X 10.7.2 on both my desktop Mac and my Macbook in order to activate iCloud. MobileMe is somehow screwing things up! All of my contacts in my address book reverted back to an older version losing my new cleaned up contact list and duplicating every single contact entry as well as every single event in my iCal calendar! Outgoing mail won't work properly either stating that my email server is not recognizing my user name and password. Also have tons of POSTMASTER undeliverable mail emails in my inbox that are to people/addresses I don't know? Why is my computer generating emails? Have I got a virus that was installed with the upgrade? I'm so ****** and irritated. Should've all gone seamlessly as I did everything status quo. Can anyone out there help me or relate?????

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