Yo, Apple SysAdmins!!!! iTunes stuck in forever loop.

Answer your pagers. Answer your phones. Pay attention to the ASAP emails from the systems. iTunes Terms & Conditions page is stuck in a loop. Here I am, trying to spend money, and the system is hosed.
This is the one part of Apple support I find very underwhelming - that it's not possible to get in touch with Apple when it's very obvious there's a serious system problem. FAQs are irrelevant at this point.

Should have made this more clear....
Apple, the problem is on YOUR SIDE! It's a problem with Apple servers, not with anything on our side, not with OSX, unless, of course, the Apple servers are running OSX, not with our computers.
It's your problem. The longer it is broken, the less money comes into iTunes. So now you have iTunes customers annoyed. Soon you'll have iTunes developers annoyed.
Guess I'll go over to hulu.

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