Shut out of iTunes - what gives?

June 9, 2010 7:26 PM

My Mac won't allow me to access iTunes Store anymore...What's going on?

I have a PowerBook G4 with OS X 10.5.8. Safari browser 4.0.2 and iTunes 9.1.
I've been using iTunes for months now, and all of a sudden I cannot access the store. I keep getting a message that I need Safari 4.0.3 in order to access the store.
I've been all over the Apple.com site and done an AskMe search to try and determine what, exactly, I need to do in order to resume purchasing from iTunes. I have an iTunes account. Should I upgrade to Safari 5? Any ideas?

posted by mnb64 to Technology (3 answers total)

Update: iTunes 9 Error: iTunes Store requires Safari 4.0.3
posted by unliteral at 7:38 PM on June 9, 2010

Installing Safari 5 may fix it.

If you don't want to make the leap to Safari 5 for some reason, you could upgrade to Safari 4.0.5, which I believe was the last version of Safari 4.x for Leopard.
posted by jedicus at 7:41 PM on June 9, 2010

Response by poster: Ok, initial problem solved by upgrading to Safari 5. Was able to purchase songs from iTunes. Now I can't seem to transfer the purchased song to my iTouch, as I was always able to do. I used to plug the Touch onto the PowerBook, then go to File>Sync iPod, and it would transfer the song to the Touch. Now the "Sync iPod" is gray-ed out and I can't access it. Argh.
posted by mnb64 at 1:39 PM on June 10, 2010