It looks like you made a new account instead of logging into an existing one. If you know the email and password for the original account you can use it. If you lost the password you can reset that but you’ll need access to the email address associated with the account.
Why is it that your forum account was just created yesterday if you’ve had this account for years? Also why is your forum name different than your comet ID name?
As far as I know the only time you have to verify an email is when making a new account, logging in doesn’t require any type of verification, so I’m pretty sure you have a new account.
ps. please post a screenshot of your current cometID pane so we can compare it, also try logging in on the cometID website and see if your proper stats are displayed there