I've been getting a good deal of traffic over on the original Gmail Problems post so here's an update for all the people looking for answers out there.
Things have been working fairly well for me over the past week or so but there have been reports of people who could not connect for days. Mostly the issues seem to be transient and trying again in 15 minutes seems to do the trick.
There does however seem to be a lack of “official” news from Google. Are there any Google bloggers out there who might want to shed some light on the issues? Does anyone know?