Quick 360 account questions

[wheelaa]

Been playing my 360 for a few weeks, offline only, and have racked up a few gamerpoints/achievements with the tag 'Wheelaa'.

Last night I thought I'd see what XBox live is about so set up my gamercard (as specified on the xbox website), hooked up the 360 to the pc/broadband and retrieved it (and then bought some coinop classics etc). Then I noticed that my live account doesn't have any of my gamerpoints/achievements on it.

So it now seems that I have 2 profiles...one is 'Wheelaa' which has all my offline game stuff, the other is 'Wheelaa' but with 'Xbox Live' beneath and this has none of my offline stuff.

So my questions are...

Is this the way it should be..2 accounts, one for offline, one for online?
Or have I ****ed up by making a separate Live account?
If so can I merge the two? Or should I just stick with the offline account which has my achievements (not many lol) when I go on Live?

Sorry for the dumb qs..this online stuff is totally new to me.

[Paulos G]

Quick answers!

So my questions are...

Is this the way it should be..2 accounts, one for offline, one for online?No

Or have I ****ed up by making a separate Live account?Yes

If so can I merge the two?No

Or should I just stick with the offline account which has my achievements (not many lol) when I go on Live?Yes

Sorry for the dumb qs..this online stuff is totally new to me.

No worries. It was new to us all once!

Cheers

P

[wheelaa]

Brilliant, thanks.

One further q...will anything I downloaded on my 'Wheelaa' 'Xbox Live' account be lost forever or can I just get them again for my normal 'Wheelaa' account? (I'm assuming it should be cool as anything on my hdd can be accessed by any account on my 360?)

Cheers!

[Paulos G]

You'll be able to access them on your normal account fine (you should be able to do that offline too).

However, if you put your HDD onto a different console you'll only be able to access them when connected to Live on the account you used to download them.

[wheelaa]

Paulos G you are my hero of the day, many many thanks!

(I think I'll just redownload the few things to my normal account and delete the one I didn't need to create, just for completeness sake)

[Paulos G]

I like being a hero!

For your next task, you need to set up Japanese and US accounts...

[wheelaa]

Cool. I assume this is because JP and US Live get different downloadable items? Should I just go to Microsoft US and Japan and set up accounts there or is it more complicated than that?