Losing connection to Music Store when downloading tv shows

I keep losing the connection to the music store when I am downloading tv shows. First, the download takes forever (3 to 5 hours)so it may be a time out issue. The error code I get the most is 9006. I have HughesNet Satellite broadband how long should a download take? Can I do anything to speed things up?

I routinely get error 9006 since "upgrading" to iTunes7.
Not only does this stop the downloading process, but, after getting this error I close iTunes and try to bring it back up again -- but it will not come back up without a reboot. And, when I try to shut the computer down for the reboot, there is one program that can't close itself and has to be ended manually. I don't know what this program is since it just shows what look like Chinese letters where the program name would be.
I am using dial-up and thought that was the problem but I see here it isn't limited to dial-up.
This has happened when I am only downloading one TV episode at a time and when I am letting 2 or 3 download at the same time. Since the other downloads continue, I am not losing connection -- except, when this happens once a file has reached processing stage. When it fails then, I think it may be freezing the other downloads (not sure about this).
Am I the only one that has to reboot to bring iTunes7 back up after this error? (The error doesn't shut iTunes down -- I do that manually -- but, after doing so, it won't come back up again without a reboot.)

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