Removing a primary email address from the Apple ID

I've created my apple ID using a Gmail address but then decided to create an @me.com email. I now want the Gmail address removed alltogether from this account so that I only recieve billing info and such on my @me.com account. How to do it?
Trying to do this from the account settings fails as it tells me I cannot set an @me.com address as primary.

That's right. I'm afraid. Part of the reason is that you need to have a [email protected] address associated with the account for contact purposes - for example, if you forgot your password, you could reset it and have the reset one emailed to you, but it woulndn't do much good if it was sent to the @me.com address and you couldn't access it.
You can change the Gmail address to something else, but in any case the only time you will encounter it in normal use is as a login, and even that is automatic in most cases.

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