Cannot complete iphoto Buy Book action

I have problem ordering a photobook which took me a long time to create. When the book is created, and after clicking the "Buy Book" button, everything went smoothly, i.e. I signed in with my Apple ID, provided my credit card and shipment information, and proceeded with sending my order. When the assembly and Upload bar slowly completed, the system halted and later on the error message "An error occured uploading your Order. Click Retry to upload the failed asset again or Cancel Order to cancel your Order. What would you like to do?"
Retried, rebooted (both safe mode and normal mode), previewed and created pdf file format fine but just could not work in the last step. VERY frustrating. Any solutions anyone?

be sure
Before ordering your book preview it using this method -http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1040 - and save the resulting PDF for reference - the delivered book will match it.
be sure your software is up to date (9.2.3 is the latest version)
Go to your account in the Apple store (store.apple.com) and re-enter your information (this probably is not it but worth a shot) and while there check your order status to verify that nothing is in progress
Boot in safe mode and try again
LN

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I can click on the blue bullet points, but not on check out. I have to do a Force Quit.
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