Well, when I went to make a gmail account, I tried to register with my usual user name (not frazz, that's too short). I checked for availability, and it was good. I filled out the rest, and tried to make my account. It comes back and tells me that my wanted name is taken.
My name is not common, I've never seen it used before. I tried making another account and emailing this guy, but it gave me a no such user return email.
I tried help. Either my name is prone to abuse, and I would not see why, or it's become dormant. Strange because based on my observations, the account was created only days earlier. That, or something else is wrong.
I tried to contact google and failed. Whether or not google actually has a support email is unknown to me.

If anyone knows about this problem, has any advice, or knows how to contact google, I'd like that.

I never had that problem when I registered emails for my friends. I guess you should just pick a different name or use another e-mail service (I don't use Gmail).