In reply to Al Evans:
> I think I mistyped the password wrong once and then got my secret question (first car, ford prefect, actually ford popular) wrong.
Al, most email services do not lock you out permanently for mistyping a password. There is often a time-delay before you can make another attempt at gaining access (usually several minutes, but gmail says 5 days FFS!). The point is that your original account is probably still active, but you'll have to wait a while before attempting to log-in. But more important, you've now publicly issued your secret question! So anybody with your account name (probably not too difficult to guess) can now access your original account.
I would get the mods to remove this thread asap.