Thanks for your reply McBie. I've changed my password (and username ) numerous times over the years, for various reasons. But only recently, when I was unable to update any apps after installing Mavericks (supposedly due to Apple not accepting my current ID--------which doesn't make sense to me since I used it the day before to update other apps!). I started researching this issue on a few other forums and a recurring solution seemed to be that I had to go back and use the very first username and password that I had set up when I got iTunes for my PC. I've long since forgotten what those names were, and besides if Apple lets me change them at will why are they then insisting I use the first ones to do updates? So to make a very long story short, I was hoping there was a way of retrieving the originals if that in fact is what Apple wants from me in order to update! Any ideas, help or otherwise would be appreciated.