the email account associated with it is long dead
Maybe you can save the email account. Try the PW recovery thing there. The lesson to be learned here children is never tell Ron to nuke your account, just stop posting if you are sick of the site. At any rate, we have to get the Avesher account back for Disturbia, Getbig can't afford to lose a legendary account like that. Maybe we should bribe Ron with a Hannukah gift of cash?