For most of this holiday season Xbox LIVE hasn’t been feeling to well. As you could probably tell by Microsoft’s frequent status updates, Xbox support is having some trouble keeping the service “up and running”, the way they like it. LIVE was feeling better for about the past 2 days (keeping an “up and running” status) and its been doing much better, but some users are still having trouble. So until we’ve had a steady Xbox LIVE “up and running” for a long period of time, I think we can’t for sure say that “they’ve fixed it.” Currently (meaning 1/5/08 - 9:49 pm Pacific Time), this is Xbox LIVE’s status - Users may experience issues performing transactions dependent on Windows Live ID availability including but not limited to: Xbox 360 account creation, renewal, recovery, and logging into or creating Windows Live ID accounts. We are working to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.