Itunes can't locate purchased songs even after re-downloaded from itunes

Hello,
I had lost some of my data and with the help of this forum I was able to find my purchase history and re-download 580 songs to my computer but when I go to itunes alot of the items I just downloaded are not located by itunes? Did I miss something? Please help.
Thank You.

I just bought an iMac and am having trouble getting my iTunes transferred over from my PC. Is there a faster way than transferring the songs to my external hard drive, then to the Mac? Also when I signed in as myself to iTunes on the Mac, I bought a couple of songs from iTunes and now it won't allow me to play them. It asks me to authorize the computer and then says it was successful. But then it goes through the same thing motions each time on the same song. I can't play them at all and I bought them on the Mac TODAY! I have only had one iTunes account, so that isn't the issue...any idea what I can do? Is this going to happen with all of my songs? Also it says I authorized 3 other computers to use my iTunes but I have no idea aside from my PC how that occured and how to undo it. Any help would be appreciated....

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Itunes can't locate purchased songs

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There are a couple of methods that can potentially get your music back into place. One would be to remove the existing (missing) entries, then re-download the content from the iTunes Store. The second, and likely easiest, would be to remove the existing library altogether, import its contents to a new library, then download the remaining content from the iTunes Store.
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iTunes: How to open an alternate iTunes Library file or create a new one
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1589
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