iTunes Store: An unknown error occurred (1008).

The iPhone iTunes app says something about 'gifting' is only possible directly from the creditcard; so if you have money on your account (by some iTunes present card or whatever..), the process might fail...
in my case, i am getting 1008 on both my macs.. BUT.. 'gifting' from the iPhone works.. strange one..

From Apple Support:
{quote}I'm sorry to hear you have been receiving an error message 1008 when attempting to purchase from the iTunes Store. Following these steps should take care of it:

1) Open System Preferences from the Apple menu.
2) Click Sharing.
3) Click in the Computer Name field.
4) From the Edit menu, choose Select All. All the text in the Computer Name field should be highlighted now.
5) Press the Delete key to remove all the text.
6) Re-type your desired computer name in the Computer Name field.
7) Close the Sharing preference window.
{quote}

thx for your response! .. i will give it a try, but i am sort of doubtful if this helps 😉, because straigt 'purchasing' works as expected. no problems here! Just if i want to give an App as a present to a another person, it fails with the 1008..
i will give it a try and share my results 😉

It sounds crazy, but this fixed it. There must be some error in the computer authorization code which this resets - only thing that makes sense to me!

holy moly ... =) ... indeed, that did it!
ShawnDuncan.. You are the man!!!!
Thanks a lot!!!

I'm having this problem, too.
How do you reset the authorization code?