I just sent an email to support@hotmail.com and immediately got a robot reply telling me to log into my hotmail account for help. Problem is I can’t log into my hotmail account to get that help.
Faecpalm
{not you, the support}
The key difference in your case and mine MAY be the timing.
I caught this early and was able to switch passwords before hotmail shut down my account.
Try this...
http://windowslivehelp.com/solution.aspx?solutionid=f172cbee-3c73-4506-8a1d-4e6e82adb846
About a third of the way down the page it gives you a link (”here”) to supposedly get to somebody who can help.