Mac App Store broken. No Download is possible

Hi
Since a really long time i am unable to download any app in the Mac App store.
When i am clicking the download button a turning wheel appears in the upper left corner but vanishes after several seconds.
Nothing happens at all. No Download, No login no nothing...thats really confusing
What I already did
I inserted these lines in Terminal:
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist
rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*
I entered the debug menu of the App store and resetted the app (and cleared the cache)
I unlogged from itunes
I forced quit storeagent..
Nothing works
Do you have any idea how to solve this problem? I really want to download OS X maverick but i cant without the access to the app store..
I am using OS Snow lion. (aluminium mac late 2008)

By chance, did you check your Applications folder for the App Store ??
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