Mac app Store: connection failed

I can't connect to iTunes or to the Mac app Store using my gmail account... this is very annoying because all my billing info is held on there.

This is on a clean install of Lion OSX. I've downloaded two copies of Lion today (I had to reinstall twice... so could that somehow be the problem?).

I can still login to my email account fine on the website etc. just not the app store (my @me account works fine, annoyingly enough).

I can also not connect to: https://iforgot.apple.com/

 

ahh okay... i hope you're right. my iPhone can't download apps either ATM so you are probably right.

I really need to grab evernote from the mac app store after my reformat! after that, I'm not too fussed about logging back in for a while...