ITunes won't let me access my account and says "the store is temporarily unavailable"

I have just got my MacBook Pro Late 2011 back from the shop after having a SSD drive fitted inplace of my optical drive and then all the OS put on to this. I had to reinstall Lion and then redownload mountain lion and install that and then Mavericks was released and I have just updated to that. Now running OS X 10.9
Everything is working fine apart from iTunes (11.1.2) it seems. I want to download all my previous purchases from the cloud but when I try and do this a pop up mesage appears saying "The iTunes store is temporarily unavaible". I am able to navigatethe store and look at apps but I just can't downlaod anything. Also when I click on my acount ID to view it that also brings up the same message.
Please excuse me if the iTunes store is actually down but I can't seem to find anyone saying the same today and I am sure it's something I have done after reinstalling all my OS.
Thanks for your help guys.

Me too. Tried all of the usual suggestions; reset cache, reset warnings, messed with the hosts files, everything,
Still can't connect to the store, all I'm trying to do is download all the album artwork for my albums...
EDIT: Exactly the same situation too, Macbook pro with SSD in an optibay and HDD in its usual place. Upgraded to mavericks as part of my SSD upgrade

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