Hasn't the thought occured to you to simply contact an Admin and ask for your old account to be reactivated? They'd just have to change the account's email address to your new one (after you proved your identity in some way to them, of course; else everyone could hijack dead accounts. I take it, Bonzie knows you and your style, so that wouldn't be a problem.)
Mr. Laser Beam, I'd strongly advise never ever to use a password manager. Every software can be hacked or spied out. Your brain can't. This board is known to have sprouted a few ads in the past that were infested with malware-toolkits and spyware (some attacking at a mere mouseover - no click required) and what the criminals who program them chiefly want is your passwords for online banking, mail accounts, shopping accounts etc. Collecting those in one convenient file is serving your data to them on a silver salver.