Setting up find iphone

Hi
Apologies if this is a really basis question, but I'm trying to set up the free Find iPhone app on my iPhone 4 without having a MobileMe account, and therefore using my hotmail account but it defaults to a mobile me account address and then of course says it doesn't recognise the password.  I'm going round in circles here so would welcome advice
Thank you

You will need to sign up for an apple ID using that email address. Follow the instructions in the link below. It says select mobileme (which you should) but it doesn't mean you have to have a mobileme account.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/find-my-iphone-setup/

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