I was setting up a clients new HP AIO Pavilion PC and came across an issue with setting up a Microsoft account to be used with Windows 8.  We created a new Microsoft account using the clients email from her ISP, to verify it we logged into her ISP's webmail service.  We clicked the link, it asked us for our Microsoft password, yet when we entered it we were told that the Microsoft account was invalid and couldnt be verified.  Now the email is locked up in Microsofts database and we cannot use it.  We tried creating a new account, but the email is in use.  We tried recovering the password but only get told that the account is invalid.  I tried ringing the support centre incase they could reset the account or remove it or something, but they were about as useful as flavoured toilet paper.