am i the only one with Itunes store problems???

OK so i wanted to get some more songs for my nano and for some strange reason the Itunes store doesn't seem to wanna connect??? ive had this prob before ( i had to download this random file thing IDK this was a few years ago) ANYway its really starting to annoy me so. anyone have any advice? i went to the HELP thing online but it didnt have anything useful :/