ITunes showing available downloads but saying iTunes Store unavailable.

When I attempt to download a recently purchased movie in iTunes, I get a message saying "Unable to check for available downloads. The iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable.  Please try again later."  It has been stating this since I purchased the movie almost 2 weeks ago.  I can stream the movie onto my AppleTV using the purchased list, but I cannot download the movie to my iPad or iTunes on my PC.  I have reinstalled iTunes, signed in and out of iTunes, deauthorized and reauthorized my compuiter with my AppleID, verified by billing settings and restarted my PC all not resolving the issue.  I find it curious why it tells me I have 5 downloads available yet the error is that it cant check for available downloads.  I would appreciate any support you could provide for this issue.  Thanks!

I have the same problem with the '6 iTunes Downloads Available' but was never able to solve it witht the iTunes support, nor the Apple Store Genius bar.  I went through 3 people with the iTunes Online support and in the end they couldn't figure out why my computers (macbook pro 1" and brand new mac mini) iTunes wouldn't download the available downloads.  They are 6 ringtones that I purchased and downloaded successfully on an iphone 4.  Then I took my iphone 4 into the Apple Store and they replaced it and I hadn't synced it to my computer so I lost them.  Then I emailed support and they sent the 6 ringtones to my iTunes account and my computers, iphones and ipads couldn't download them.  In the end they ended up crediting my account with 10 song credits that I could use because they couldn't solve the problem after 6 months.  So now there they sit evertime I'm in iTunes '6 iTunes Downloads Available'.  Sorry I don't have the answer I've tried everything on my own, even erasing my phones and computer then reinstalling everything.

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