Well, between my tirade at the end of my 3 hour ordeal with the MS rep, my mini-vent here and smerlus' bright side of leaving the stalkers behind--something worked. This afternoon I half-heartedly hit the 'try again' option to attempt to recover my gamer tag, and *gasp*, it started thinking about it! It took nearly an hour and a half to recover, but recover it did. Yay! (And smerlus, if you say it's just 'cuz I'm a girl, Imma gonna come to NY just to smack ya!! 
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