What is the difference between an apple id and a .mac name?

I already have an Apple id that I set up when registering my macbook and for my itunes account. My Apple id is not an email address, it is just a word. I now want to get a .mac account but am not sure whether I am supposed to use the same id for this, or can I choose another name? Would this then be my menber name and my email name? I would prefer a combination of letters and numbers.

Supposedly they've merged... although I do find from time-to-time, that sometimes you need to enter just <userid>, and other times <[email protected]> to login to a particular service.
Here's two tech articles from Apple explaining the merge:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86308
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86334
Regards,
ML

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