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I often find that the website is unvailable in the late morning hours for me.
After recently building a new computer with Vista64, I noticed that you can't use the 64-bit version of IE to access your account (don't ask me how many days it took for me to figure that out). This and the lack of FLASH support must be why Microsoft still included the 32-bit version.