iPhones, iPods, and iPads forum: ITUNES/IPhone lock out

So, please NOTE intrepid IPONE IPAD IPOD users that if you do not maintain the names/numbers of the credit card you used to initiate ITUNES oh so many ITunes generations ago, you won't get past Apple security to get back your hard earned ITUNES music, those CD's that you so easily entrusted to upload to your ITUNES account. So like Apple. To drive away subscribers. After 2 hours with Apple security on the phone, I realized that even though I'd answered all of the security questions corredtly from 2001. Could the beaucrat understand that I was the birthdate I provided, the city that I grew up in, the first car I drove.All of that was me. But the first credit card. Long gone. Bank closed. the card expired anyway...tossed into the garbage. See what happens gang when you don't buy new product from ITUNES anymore? Yes. Its all true. I am locked out of all 800 songs on my ITUNES account. And the IPOD still works. But none of my computers recognize it. without logging into ITUNES to up grade the ITUNE version on my old IPOD I can't make the computer and IPOD handshake. But the IPOD shuffle still shuffles and still holds a charge. Yes, folks it's from 2001.