ITunes Store download problems

Hi, for the last few months if I purchase something on the iTunes store (Apps, Music, TV Shows, Movies) regardless of what it is the purchase is made and it downloads fine. However, if I close iTunes before the download is completed, whatever was in the download queue disappears. If I click on "Store" in the menu bar and select "Check for Available Downloads" I see the "Checking For Downloads message, followed by a pop-up the reads "Unable to check for available downloads, The iTunes Store in temporarily unavailable, Please try again later". When I select the "Downloads" section in the Sidebar, it tells me (at the bottom middle of the screen) that i have "388 iTunes Downloads Available", but when I click on the download button I get the same message about the iTunes Store being unavailable. When I go to the actual Store and select "Account" from the Quicklinks menu on the right it shows that I have 400 Downloads Available, however when I click on the "Download Now" button I see the Checking for Downloads message at the top of the screen and then nothing happens, I don't even get a pop-up saying that iTunes is unavailable.
Is there a way i can fix this? or should I contact Apple...
I've read a few similar posts about this and tried a few suggestions but nothing seems to help.
This is getting incredibly annoying now as I've spent well over $200 over the last 6 months, I even receive E-mails for my Season Passes letting me know a new episode is available for download, but guess what....I can't download them! (sorta rubbing salt in the wound hey?)
I have a HP Laptop running Win7 64-bit, on this I've updated iTunes and am running 10.5.0.90
I've run the Diagnostics test and passed with no errors. I have my firewall turned off, I am using SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, and have also disabled "Check for server Certificate revocation"
I also own a 20-inch iMac Alum (Mid-2007) running OS X Lion 10.7.1 and iTunes 10.5b112 (112) 64-bit and am having the exact problems on my mac as well. Although iTunes on my mac will download Apps I've purchased on my iPhone 4 Automatically, where-as this doesn't happen on my PC.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!

c'mon guys! someones gotta have something to say?

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