Is it just me or is iTunes having too many problems?

I am getting more and more problems with iTunes lately.
To sum it up:
- 50 errors when downloading videos
- 8008 errors when downloading videos
- video downloads without errors, but starting from scratch a few times before finally finishing the whole download
- 1403 error when downloading the iOS upgrade
What is happening here? When I email Apple I get the standard checkbox reply, but I already tried everything they suggest: a new user account, removing temp downloads, disabling the firewall, verifying/repairing permissions; you name it. I am not using web accelerators, don't have anti-virus stuff installed. I am actually out of clues, except that it all is related to iTunes and that it is really starting to annoy me.
Anyone else noticing these download hiccups lately?
Cheers,
Marinka

It started with the – 50 errors with me (multiple iTunes stores, different AppleIDs, different user accounts) and then after a while there's the –8008 error, so I deleted all the temp downloads and started over, but the same thing happened. The only way I could download was to stop the download manually after 25MB or so and then resume. That takes a long time with season passes I tell ya!
And now this evening I had to update 4 iPads 2 to iOS 5.0.1 (from 4.3.3) for work and it gave me the 1403 error. I actually read quite a few posts with the same error here. I'll try on a different Mac tomorrow, but even if that works that is clearly not a solution.
I've been working with Macs for over 20 years now and I think this is actually the first time that something this annoying is happening. So well done Apple for the last 20 years, but now please solve this!

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