So I just got the game, literally played one race just now.  I realized the game can't connect to this "Autolog" thing....I thought maybe my xbox live wasn't connected so I quit out and restarted.  Nope, xbox live is fine...just the game can't connect to autolog. 
 
It wouldn't be a big deal at all, I don't know anyone else playing the game.  I just wanted to play some of the single player for the time being.  But the damn game tries to connect to autolog after the race too...locking up everything for about 30 seconds.  I've also read online that it will wipe out any multiplayer games as well when it tries to do this.  WTF???  Is there a fix for this???

I had some problems yesterday connecting to autolog even though I was on xbox live just fine.  Restarting my xbox seemed to get me back in.

Sometimes it seems like all of EA's server infrastructure has some problems. Yesterday the connection with Autolog was shaky at best and the two days ago EA Sports Active 2 had similar problems which, thanks to modal dialogs every couple of seconds that tell you that it's trying to connect to EA's server, was even more annoying.

1. CONNECTION FAILED   
2.    You must be signed in to Xbox LIVE and the EA servers in order to access the online features of this title.   
3.    Error Code: 40010000