I'm useless

You didn't specify an email address in your old account. In the past when I did this kind of thing I always had some sort of definitive proof that I was giving the account to the right person, in this case I'm leaning towards sending you a new password via wikipedia (to wp:User:Stevebritgimp), but I'm not sure what I'm allowed to do on the server any more, and breaking into someone's account is a pretty big deal.

Perhaps there's an alternate username you'd feel comfortable being renamed to, Steve?

Yeah, a rename would be the more sensible option.

Well, thanks for your help, but a rename would kind of defeat the object of me asking, and I might as well stick with this one. Still mystified that I picked a password I can't remember, unless there is a funny capital letter in there somewhere.

Right - I have had another go with my password memory bank - and cracked it (for the record it was a lack of a capital whereas now I use a capital). So it is sorted. So now I have two accounts, although one of those is extraneous. I suppose I can troll myself.

I'm happy to hear that