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G'day and welcome to the Forums.

You can try by sending off an email to <[email protected]> stating the reason why, however in all probability you will have to change your account details.
 
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It depends on what you want to change it to. If you want to change it to a pre-existing but unused ID, you simply can't. I had this very problem and even though the ID I wanted ([email protected]) was not in use, it had once upon a time been allocated, and .Mac retains these addresses permanently, in case the original owner of the ID decides to rejoin.

If you want to change it to a new, unused one, you can either (a) follow the support links on the .Mac page, get a live chat going with a support person and fix it that way, or (b) take out a new .Mac ID which has the ID you want.

Those are the options I am aware of!
 

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