Hi,
I just thought I'd chime in here, too.
I once made a new account to send a PM when I couldn't remember my password and I did not have permission to send PMs because I had not made enough posts, so I don't know if that will work. Unless you wan to make a bunch of phoney posts all in row!
Just a thought, if you can still recieve PMs from people, maybe they could send you their email addresses. Even if you don't want to use your own email to communicate, you could make a new one just for that purpose.
I hope you are able to sort this out.
Good luck,
Kim!