-208 ERROR preventing me from listening to purchases!

ITunes 6 now asks me to authorise each song (purchases made over the last 12 months) and then I re-enter username and password and then I am told I have a new authorisation. (1/5)

Then I get a -208 error, unknown error occurred. Please try again later.

NO!!!

I've had this problem for over 24 hours and what makes me REALLY REALLY MAD is that I've paid for hundreds of singles and albums and recently videos and just because of Apple's Bugs - I'm not allowed to listen to my purchased AND DOWNLOADED SONGS!

The songs downloaded should NOT DEPEND ON HOW THE SERVER IS WORKING!!!

My machine is the only one authorised and now apparently I need to authorise my machine just to sample songs aswell.

Maybe Apple you should be a little less hasty trying to RUSH releases (version 6 - how rushed is that!) and make sure the software works.

But most importantly -

IT IS WRONG AND IMMORAL TO PREVENT YOUR CUSTOMERS FROM BEING ABLE TO LISTEN TO MUSIC THEY HAVE PURCHASED AS AND WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO PULL THE SERVER DOWN OR DO MAINTENANCE.

THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE - START CARING ABOUT YOUR CUSTOMERS.

Angry!