Definitely typical. I've been fighting this since the day they announced the changes. Stalls, errors, incomplete downloads all over the place. I now have to babysit every album, wait eons for a track to start, and when it errs out, cancel it, then resume it to get it to try yet again. I'm fairly pissed at this point, but there's not much that can be done. I guess they are just being slammed by everyone trying to download all they can before they cancel. Support is unresponsive, no message boards... what a mess.

edit: And Matt's correct. It worked flawlessly before the announcement.