This apple id is only valid for purchases in the australian itunes store. I'M BRITISH!

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So my mum just bought a phone today, she's not really a techy person so she bought a cheap iPhone 3GS and she asked me to set it up for her.
I made a new email address for her and made an Apple ID for her. I just verified the email for her with Apple and it opened my iTunes and a message popped up and it said "This apple id is only valid for purchases in the australian itunes store. You will be switched to that store".
I don't know why this has happened, i've used mine for my iPhone for ages and that's had no problems.
We live in the UK and we always have, so why's it saying this?
Any help please?
Thank you.

WOW, OK. I just changed my country to UK. And now i'm entering my mums bank stuff, and the address already there is someone in australia. Earlier on it said that my mums email (that i made 10 mins before) already exists. So i reset the password. So how can there be 2 email addresses that are the same? I'm lost!
I'm just gonna make a whole new email with a whole new apple id! No more hotmail for me.

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