I do still have the Ledger device I set up with the correct PW's I then lost
Well then it turns out that I misunderstood you ). In that case you just need to figure out what the problem is. Does your computer see the device? Could the problem be in the usb-cable or connector?
Would you know if there is a way to get past PW's used on a ledger device from it?
There is no way to get seed phrase out of the device.
My computer does see the Ledger device but the Live acc doesnt recognize it
I set up the Live acc and the ledger did allow me to send and receive several transactions using the Ledger, but when I tried to use the ledger a week later it didnt recognize it.
So I restored the Ledger via the 24 PW's I had saved
My thinking is that the initial nonrecognition of the Ledger device may have been some simple error, but when I restored the device using what I now believe to be the wrong PW's the previous Live acc is now inaccessible