Yes I know - done to death - USERNAME problem

I have 2 Apple IDs...used to get IPADs when in short supply in Australia and only 2 per ID were allowed, so Iquickly created the second and was able to order 4 IPADs (2 per Account/ID) for family.
My MAIN ID is the one I WANT to use. I am logged in here with my secondary one, because its the only one I CAN use.
When I login using my MAIN account/ID, using CORRECT email address and password it asks me to choose a USERNAME....no matter what I enter (INCLUDING THE USERNAME THAT WAS ORIGINALLY ATTACHED TO THAT APPLE ID) I get the message that a Username for that AppleID and Email already exists and only one can. I simply cannot use the Username I originally created on that Apple ID.
Infuriating.
I DO NOT WANT TO ABANDON my original Apple ID, it is the one that all my ITUNES/APP Store purchases/Downloads are attached to. But I cant use the USER in these forums...bizzare and completely at odds with the simplicity for which APPLE is known, and which has drawn me to it from the WIN7 world over recent months.
Apple have to fix this, dont they? I read others have had the same issues with USERNAMES now being unavailable to them, wrongly, for a variety of reasons.
Apple SHOP be able to help?
Rgds
Rod
Perth
FROM MY SECONDARY AND UNWANTED APPLE USERNAME !!!!

Hi John
no, two separate and very different email addys used - one thru my local ISP and the other a hotmail one.
Re your first paragraph -exactly correct. My original email and password are (were) fine, but NO Username can be now 'attached' to it  -not my original Username, nor any new one I try.
I CAN MANAGE my original AppleID and assign(ed) a new Password to it (which in turn caused now-solved grief with my Itunes account, my App Store login, my "Find my IPHONE" credentials etc) BUT I CANNOT assign and use ANY Username to it.
So it's a 'dormant' Apple Community "account", but an active APPLE account.
Conversely, I have an active, UNWANTED secondary Apple Community 'account' (which I am using now), that is dormant from an APPLE (Itunes, App Store etc) perspective.
Rgds
Rod

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