Why can't I log on to Apple communities

Hello,
Has something changed to way that communities work that I have missed?  I have been a subscriber for several years but have not been able to log into any community discussion board for several days.
I have checked my .mac/.me accounts which are valid and current but each time I have clicked the Sign In link I have only managed to sign in as a guest.  I also changed my password in case there was a conflict but nothing seemed to help.
Of course, I seem to have been logged on now in order to post this question but, previously, I could not log in at all.
I'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions.
Thanks,
Cliff
Brighton, UK

Not sure if this is the same problem, but I noticed it yesterday and it's fixed today.  Yesterday I was showing as "guest" which is what I expect when my login times out.  So I hit the Sign In link, and it took me to the sign in page.  I signed in, and got no error messages at all, it looked exactly like a successful sign on -- except that I was still "guest" and not me.  I probably tried 20 times, contemplating bemusedly that the only way I knew how to figure out what was going on was to post a question on the discussions forum, but I couldn't log in to post the question and if I could log in then it wouldn't be a problem anymore.  (There is a Dilbert cartoon in there somewhere...)
I'm not sure when the last time I was logged in before that -- probably some time last week -- so I don't know when it started, just that it seems to have just as magically cured itself.
Oh, and I am using Firefox8.0, and while this was going on there was plenty of traffic on the boards so it was clearly not a general outage.

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