Songs missing from purchased music but are in library?

I just got a new Macbook Air and uploaded my itunes music via flash drive. I also exported/imported my playlists. I just noticed that my purchased music playlist is missing the first 22 songs however, they are in my library. Any ideas why this would happen and how to fix it other than manually putting the songs back into that playlist?

The "purchased" playlist is automatically generated only when purchases are made on any particular computer and those purchases are automatically added to it. It is not a Smart Playlist that automatically picks up old purchases if you transfer the library to a new computer. You can easily drag-n-drop anything you want into the playlist, though.

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