Purchasing music from Puerto Rico

I've been purchasing music from iTunes since I bought my first iPod a couple of years ago. I the course of this time, I have spent Hundreds of dollars in music.
Recently, my credit card was stolen, so I had to cancel that CC Number and get a new one. When I changed the information for the credit card in iTunes, it automaticly stoped allowing me to download music. The error I receive is that they need a "Valid U.S. Address".
The address I had in the previous credit card was from Puerto Rico as well and I never had any problems with it. As a matter of fact, most of my colleagues in the office are allowed to download using the same billing address I use.
Will someone please advise???
I work for a publishing company and I respect copyrights and really like to keep it that way, but if Apple doesn't allow me to purchase from them, I will have to go with Limewire or some other "Free" music download site.
Please help me stay legal!!!!!!
Fujitsu Tablet PC   Windows XP  

Some people have been having problems with the iTMS database. For instance in Portland, Oregon, iTMS thinks the entire city is in one county. Those users have to change their county to Multnomah, it is the only way iTMS will work.
There is also something messed up regarding an Air Force base in Alaska.
My info doesn't ask for a county, just city and state.
Does yours have a county?
P.S. Go here http://myinfo.apple.com and make sure everything is OK. It fixed things for these people
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1643372&#1643372
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    If you are still unable to create an account, it is possible that the iTunes Store has been unable to verify an authorization from your financial institution. There are several possible reasons for this:
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    2) There is an issue with your card. Consider using a different card or contacting your financial institution to advise them of the problem.
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    What's up with you people? Stop using the same canned messages and read the whole conversation, PLEASE!
    That's almost the same answer Vanessa gave to my initial e-mail. Then, Andres apologized because Apple does consider Puerto Rico part of the United States and even includes Puerto Rico as a "state" in the fields of registration for MyInfo and iTunes.
    Puerto Rico is a territory of the USA and we, Puertorricans, are considered citizens and residents of the USA, so far that the same rates apply to the USPS Post Office, that we don't need to get through customs in domestic flights, that we don't needed a passport to get in and out of the USA until the new Patriot Act provision that started now on January 1st, 2007.
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    Hi!
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    My main interest in having an iTunes account is being able to download the CD’s artwork, which, apparently, can only be done if I have an account registered in iTunes. As an option, is there any way to create an account without having "purchasing" privileges for this matter?
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    <a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://">http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww
    Customer First Name : David
    Customer Last Name : Umpierre
    email : [email protected]
    Web Order # :
    Support Subject : Password
    Sub Issue : Other
    iTunes Account Name: Not provided
    Platform : Windows XPSP2
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    To the previous user, thank you for anything you may do to help with this, but I understand that I clearly stated that I was not expecting help from a customer service representative but to get a number of people going to the same or a similar situation which may be later used as an example to Apple for them to work with this.
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    So far it seems that you do not understand my principal need, which is downloading album artwork, not buying music.
    I just received my iPod and am hesitating to open it because of all of this.
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    My billing address and full name (as specified by the bank in their statements and in their system) is the following:
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