Not authorized to buy gift certificates?

***.  I tried to buy a gift certificate for my daughter and it says that may account is not authorized to buy certificates (I'm the parent here) and to go to a retail store to get one. How does THAT get cleared up?  Or is it because it was for $40 and over some perceived limit?  I checked my settings, redid my password (because iTunes forces you to pick stupid ones that I can never remember--but any hacker could hack--but that's another problem).  Was it because I'd recently redone my password?  Does it have a "hold"?  Is it because I'm running iTunes 10.6.3 (25) on Mac OS 10.5.8 (this is an old PowerPC Mac)

Hi I am experiencing the same problem buying gift certificates - bought 3 but iTunes won't let me buy another.  Did you figure out how to increase the limit?  Thanks.
Joy51

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