Changing iCloud to match new Apple ID?

I have just finished a very in depth and long winded email conversation with support about this exact issue.

If at any stage in the past, your AppleID (whether it was a gmail, hotmail, yahoo) etc email address was associated with a mobileme account somehow (which I do not believe mine was, but apparently it was) then you will not be able to set a new or existing @me.com address as the primary address on your current account at all. My current AppleID is a hotmail account that I need to delete.

You can obviously set up a new seperate AppleID/Account with an @me.com and start from scratch, but you cannot transfer any purchases / history.

I am actually super, super upset about this whole situation and thinking I might as well start from scratch on Andriod and give the Google Cloud a go.... Apple should have better planned their migration from Mobileme to iCloud - this was in their control - not ours.

so if I understand you correctly, that means in my situation that I should be able to use my me address as my primary e-mail?

I never had a mobile me account, I only registered, when the icloud service started. When I tried to change my Apple ID primary e-mail from a third providers address to @me.com, it indicates that it is not possible and that I should contact the apple support.

I am confused now, your statement is also contrary to Winston Churchill's statement:

Winston Churchill Poulton-le-Fylde, UK

Welcome to the Apple community.

You cannot change your ID to an existing me address, in fact you cannot change it to a me address at all. The only time you can use a me address for an ID is when you migrate a mobile me account to an iCloud account.

If you do not currently have a MobileMe account, you cannot migrate your me address to an iCloud address. If you do have a MobileMe account you would need to remove your current iCloud account (don't worry, all data will disappear, but is stored in the cloud and can be recovered when you login again), migrate your mobile me account to iCloud and then add the iCloud account that you deleted back as a secondary account. You could then transfer all the data over to your primary iCloud account and delete the iCloud account that you do not wish to use.

Unfortunately I'm a little unclear on whether you currently have a MobileMe account, perhaps you could let me know exactly what the position is before you set about carrying out any of these instructions.

If i delete my primary email in itunes account settings, will my secondary register as my primary?

Hey I have a question wha if i had a icloud account but now i have an apple ID. How do i get all my info to my apple ID. I dont care if i wont use my icloud account again.