Cannot download anything from app store

I have looked through posts on this subject and nothing has helped me yet...
Running lion on a brand new macbook pro and keep receiving this message when attempting to download even free apps:
"There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4)"
It appears right after typing in password to apple id.
I came back over 12 hours later and still got that message. Tried restarting and still the message...
ideas?

here is a solution for someone that I found (If you don't have a second AppleID, try creating a new one):
"I was trying to download an App from the Mac OS X App Store. When I put in my password and clicked Sign In, instead of downloading and installing the application this message came up:
There was an error in the App Store. Please try again later. (4)
Luckily I have more than one Apple ID, so I just deleted my email address from the left text field and put in my other email address, put in my password or that one and clicked Sign In again. It worked fine."
source:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1297586

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