ITunes Music Store Search ERROR?.

Everytime i search for an artist in the search window of iTunes music store i get this error; ???
"iTunes has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
I've tried the program repair & running QT stand alone 7.1 & nothing?
Has anyone out there run into this problem?
Thanks!
I'm running version 5.0 & never had a problem until 6/3...
Also, the "power search" does the same thing...

There has been very heavy traffic on the store due to the release of iTunes plus. The error should go away once traffic dies down.

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