Problems for non-US citizens accessing english-only content

Question

Hello,
I recently switched to Mac OS X and became a registered Apple Developer. I live in Austria, my mother tongue is german, but I have to use english most of the time during work.
I already used the Apple Store (I enrolled in both the Mac Developer and iPhone Developer program). When registering, I had to provide an austrian address for the billing.
Now, I'd like to use the english content of iTunes, mainly the Developer on iTunes (iTunes_U), which I like a lot.
The problem is, I have to switch the contry setting in iTunes back to US when searching for english content. But everytime I reach some non-free content (which can be bought), iTunes complains that my account is valid for Austria only and get logged out and find myself on the landing page with german content. So I have to log in again, switch country back to US and do the game again. This happens very often (more than 10 times a day) and is very frustrating.
What do you suggest I can do?

Answer 1

First, I'd suggest you post questions in the iTunes for Mac forum. You're more likely to get useful assistance there than you will here in the iTunes for Windows forum where solutions are often quite different.
As to your problem, sorry, but I'm afraid that there is probably not going to be an easy solution for you. The iTunes Store in Austria is only available in German, so unless the institution whose content in iTunes U you wish to access makes that content available in English in the Austrian iTunes U or from another source, switching countries back and forth will continue to be necessary if you need that content in English.
The only suggestion I would have would be to set up a separate user account in Mac OS X, connect that account's iTunes to the US iTunes U site, and use Fast User Switching to go back and forth between the Mac OS X accounts. That might be less cumbersome than constantly having to switch iTunes between iTunes Stores.
Regards.