Accessing previous iTunes purchases in Snow Leopard

I recently upgraded to Snow Leopard. Sparing you all the details, I am having to rebuild my iTunes Library from scratch, bringing it over from Time Machine is causing problems, basically, it causes my Time Machine backups to fail once I bring the old files over. So, if I am rebuilding my iTunes library, how do I get all of my old purchases (specifically apps & books, music seems to be there) to come back into my iTunes? I tried to do this once before I upgraded to Snow Leopard and by logging into my apple account, they all came back in, but for some reason, in Snow Leopard, it's only bringing in music and movies, no apps or books??? If I go to check for available downloads, it says all purchases have been downloaded for that account, but they are not. If I go in and look at my purchase history, they are listed there, just not sure how to access themnow. Am I doing something wrong? Is there some other way to reclaim all my purchases? Thanks!

Arcane technical reasons, an important one of which is called +backward compatibility.+
If you upgraded to Snow Leopard, QT7 still exists on your Mac, but it was moved to the Utilities folder.
If you installed Snow Leopard from scratch, you an also install QT7. There is a Snow Leopard version of QT7 on the DVD and can be downloaded from Apple.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4357
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