Just to be clear, the code snippet above was the cause of my problem.

OMG, it just worked uploading through Xcode :) Back in business :)

OMG, it just worked uploading through Xcode :) Back in business :)

Me too, I've been trying Xcode and Transporter for the last several hours and nothing is working

Now I'm getting: Error Fetching App Record (App record request failed with error: "Unexpected Status Code")

I tried again using Transporter and got the following: Unable to authenticate. (-19209)