ITunes Music Store always asking for password

I upgraded to iTunes 9, and now every time I open it, it asks for my account password. At first, it would say my password wasn't entered correctly. After several instances of that, I logged out of the store and then back in. It still asks for my password every time now, but the message doesn't indicate anything is wrong. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks.

I don't know if this is exactly what's happening to you, but it may be:
Apparently iTunes 9 sets cookies on your computer, and uses Safari to store them. So if you don't have cookies enabled in Safari (and you don't have any old iTunes cookies saved there), you can't sign in to the second level of the store (viewing your account or buying anything). If that's the case, set Safari to accept cookies and it should work (it did for me). It's possible (I've heard) that the latest version (4.0.3) of Safari is needed, but I'm not sure about that.
This is amazing to me - if you have cookies enabled, but SAFARI IS NOT OPEN, iTunes will still put cookies in Safari.
Note that this is on a Mac - on Windows it may use a different browser.

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