Itunes store songs won't play? Even after I authorized my computer...

I purchased a handful of songs from Itunes store a few months ago.
Recently they started not playing and said I had to "authorize" them for my computer.
I made an Itunes store account and signed in to authorize the songs, but when I try to play them it asks me to authorize them again and then says "This computer has already been authorized".
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

I had the same problem after I purchased a cd online in the iTunes store on my work computer. It asked me to authorize the computer to purchase the songs, and then repeatedly asked me to authorize the computer to play the songs.
I just spoke with Apple Care and it seemed to fix the problem. I am using a PowerMac G5 and running Mac OS X 10.4.11 as well as iTunes 8 so the following steps might vary according to your make model etc...
Shut down iTunes and open your hard drive found on your desktop.
On the left side you will find a "house" icon with a file name you have specified.
Inside that file you need to open the "Library" folder.
Inside the "Library" folder you will find a "Preferences" folder. Open that.
Now you will find a list of of files and folders. Many of the files will start off with "com.apple..."
Find any and all files that read "com.apple.iTunes..."
I had three ("com.apple.itunes.plist", "com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist" and one other I cant remember the specific title to)
Highlight all those files and drag them into your trash.
Once they are in your trash, restart you computer and open up iTunes. Things should work now.
Apparently this resets some preferences (or something along those lines).
Hope this helps, and I always find Apple Care to be very easy to work with so give them a call.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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