I'm chalking this one up to Anonymous. I started having sporadic issues a few weeks and dug around for information. Turns out I started having problems about 8 hours after Anonymous dropped that Anti-Sony video threat. I never really had problems before, with the exception of the daylight savings glitch, but ever since it's been wonky, extremely sketchy connections. The last information i saw that reportedly came from Anon specifically said "Once PSN is back online" they won't direct any attacks towards PSN, but rather Sony itself, so as not to affect the consumer. This was in the last 48 hours. Leads me to believe they're taking credit for THIS outage, but won't continue once they fix it.

In any case, I support Anonymous' cause, but their method is worthless. Aside from taking down the Playstation Store, they haven't done any sizable damage to Sony profits. What they have done is take away usability of Sony products to the consumer. In the name of fighting against Sony's taking away of advertised features from their consumers. To say it's slightly hypocritical is an understatement.