Cannot Buy Music on iTunes Music Store --- WOW -What's Happening at Apple ?

I am running iTunes 6.0.4.2. Since I upgraded I have not been able to purchase the music in my shopping cart, currently valued at about $200.00
My shopping cart displays properly, and when I click on the “Buy Now” button I get the normal purchase dialog. My account name is displayed correctly. After I enter my password I receivethe following message --
“Purchasing Shopping Cart”
Unfortunately, the buy attempt fails, and it fails repeatedly. Over the past two days I have tried over 20 times to purchase music from the Music Store, and in every case the result is failure.
The error messsages follow a pattern
ERROR MESSAGE ON FIRST ATTEMPT
“Your account is temporarily unavailable.
The store is unable to access your account information. You may continue to browse the store. Please try again in a few minutes.”
ERROR MESSAGE ON SECOND ATTEMPT
“Could not purchase the items in your cart.
The store is temporarily unavailable. (5555)
There was an error in the Music Store.
Please try again later.”
ERROR MESSAGE ON THIRD ATTEMPT
“Could not purchase the items in your cart.
An unknown error occurred. (-50)
There was an error in the Music Store.
Please try again later.”
After these errors the system simply fails to provide any error messages at all.
My music downloads never start.
These errors seem to be permanent. Over the course of all last evening, early this morning, and now late this afternoon, I have received the same set of error messages over 20 times.
Seems like Apple's iTunes is not producing much revenue.
How about a fix ASAP ?
This is CLEARLY Apple's problem, NOT Mine, as evidenced in these iTunes generated error messages.
Come on, Apple – Clear up this mess
LATE BREAKING NEWS -- I now only receive the first error message, after which the Music Store just sits there unresponsively, producing no messages at all.
I guess Apple did not like the 2nd and 3rd messages. They clearly indicate that Apple is at fault here. From the number of postings, I guess that it pretty clear to all of us.
COMMENTS ?
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It's interesting. There's clearly something wrong with the Music Store, but everyone seems to be having different problems. All lead to not being able to connect or stay connected. I can't connect. I don't even get the luxury of starting something in the store and getting an error message. It just sits there reading "Accessing Music Store." And it never accesses. And if I leave my computer on and let iTunes run, it will continue to say "Accessing Music Store." I can even close out iTunes and reopen it and it will continue to say "Accessing Music Store." It gets stuck. It's doing it right now. The only way I can get it to stop is by shutting down my computer. That's right. Even if I disconnect my LAN line, it will continue to read...well, you get the point now, I'm sure.
I am glad to find out that it's not just a problem with my computer. My computer's not the best, so I was convinced that it was just my computer. But I just happened to take a look at the forum. Well, it looks like we're just going to have to wait for Apple to do something about it.

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