So, during the first few stages of the game, I understand it walks you through a brief tutorial.

I'm stuck at the part of the tutorial where you've been given 100 tokens, and you're supposed to use 40 of them, to buy a "premium account" for one day.

Every single time I try and make the purchase, it tells me that my connection is lost. I can't skip the purchase, because it's been added as part of the tutorial... Very discouraging as a first time experience with the game...

try clearing your cache;which depends on which kind of brower you use I can walk you through it.