Error 3259 Fix !!!!!

Thanks to whoever it was!!!! If you encounter this error when you purchase songs on Itunes: they either stop downloading, or they wont download at all and you receive "Error 3259", the temp fix is this
Pause All downloads and download each purchased song one at a time !!!! This seems to work.
Dell   Windows XP Pro  

As ridiculous as this fix is, it does work. I had two songs that wouldn't download (error 3259), I told iTunes to download them again, then I paused each of them and then started each one again and it worked.
This is pretty serious bug in iTunes, hopefully they will fix it soon.

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