In answer to my own above question, and this is relevant to the topic. After following this suggestion:
Artie wrote:I has the same issue Robo - Chrome worked for me
But again, must be logged out on the website when starting the reset feature or it wont work on any browser
I was able to attempt to register my old pre-email verification account however, I received 'this username is already taken". I assume the username field to register an account is the account name field..has to be. So...if all this is true, if an original, pre-email account is hijacked and the ingame command to change PW no longer works, you cannot change the PW and would be sharing your account with a hijacker of your account in perpetuity. Can anyone else verify this?