@Duke9700-
Just out of curiosity, where are you in the US and who is your ISP?
AT&T Uverse for my ISP and in the Atlanta, GA area. I'm leaning towards blaming AT&T because I tried accessing the MB site from a few different networks but all were AT&T in some way. Home ISP (AT&T Uverse), Cell connection (AT&T), and public Starbucks Wifi (again AT&T).
Sorry - as much as I love the MB forums that was as much effort as I was going to put into to troubleshooting! Now had I been unable to listen to my MUSIC in that time it would be a MUCH different story!