I am caught up in Gmail and cannot escape!

I've been blogging for a few months now using Google's Blogger, and have been doing fine (mostly). But now it's all gone horribly wrong....

Yesterday, I signed up to a Gmail account--I've always used Outlook until now, but wanted a new email address associated with my blog for a survey I'm going to run.

That was easy enough. But now that Gmail account has become my "primary email" address with Google, and I can't find out how to change it. When I comment on a blog now, and subscribe to the comments, instead of those comment-updates arriving in my Outlook inbox they go striaght to Gmail instead. My old email address is still listed with Google on my account, but I can't change it to my be my primary address--there appears to be no option which allows this.

I've had a rummage around in Google's help facility and found nothing that helped. There was a suggestion that I could just set up an email forwarding thing that automatically forwards all incoming Gmail onto my other email address--but that would defeat the whole purpose of my having a Gmail address, which was to separate one set of mail from another! And on top of that, I'm on a slow dial-up connection and Gmail is horribly time-consuming for me to use.

I could delete the Gmail account--but then it wouldn't ever be available to me or anyone else again, apparently, and as it's the name of my blog I really don't want to do that. So, does anyone know how (or even if) I can reset my Google/blogger account so that all email ignores my Gmail account, and goes straight to my other address instead, like it used to? And can I do this without deleting the Gmail account?

But if I want to comment using my Blogger identity, so that people can then follow my user profile back to my own blog, that doesn't work... pah. I might just have to delete the Gmail account. It would probably be simpler.

I don't want to funnel all my Gmails into my Outlook thing, as the whole point of having a Gmail account was to keep it completely separate from my other emails... so that would defeat the object of having it at all.

Before I signed up to Gmail I used a non-gmail email address to deal with all my Blogger emails, like comment notification etc: one for my own blogs and another to subscribe to other people's blogs with. It all worked very nicely. Now that b****y Gmail address is sitting there on my Blogger account marked "primary email", with my other two email addresses below it. I have the option to delete the other two, but not to change the primary email address to anything other than Gmail.

I shall give it until tomorrow and then delete it, and open another Google account and set up a Gmail account there. But why can't Google just let me change the primary email address? It would be SO simple.