Apple TV - Syncing Problems After purchasing TV season on ATV

There appear to be numerous issues with ATV and syncing. However, I've yet to find anyone requesting assistance with my particular problems:
1. I purchased a season of television episodes with my iTunes acct. on ATV. Now my MacBook fails to sync. It's stuck on the moving striped bar indicating that syncing is just initiating. A couple of times, it's stopped and an error message appears advising me that my computer is not authorized to play the television shows that are being synced back to my iTunes. This is ridiculous as I only use one iTunes account. When I "re-authorize" my computer as the message instructs, of course I am advised that my computer has already been authorized. But the episodes still fail to sync.
2. A week before I purchased the TV episodes giving me trouble, I purchased an HD movie on ATV. That movie synced without issue back to my iTunes. But today, in the midst of attempting to deal with the sync issues on ATV, I decided to backup all of my iTunes (on my computer) on my external HD. Everything backed up with the exception of my movie. The error message I got simply said there was an error and it could not be transferred to the HD.
I am having more and more issues with iTunes and ATV. I hope Apple gets these under control. For years, I've been a happy Apple customer, turning many other people on to Apple products. But lately I've become increasingly concerned with Apple, at least regarding their online media purchasing/rental system and its compatibility with Apple hardware.
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.

Sorry Capoho for calling you the "other person" just didn't remember you screen name but am thankful for your input. I sure hope it is only an itunes problem.
*Winston*, I tried setting up another account and brought up itunes and had to agree to terms, blah blah blah, and atv didn't come up, however, the homesharing showed up, which it doesn't on the adminstrators account (my original account) anymore, which is another issue. However, I can say this, since I have "repaired permissions" atv is acting like it did when I downloaded itunes 9.0. If I tell it to sync everthing that I wanted to it will only sync in sections. For instance, I had it sync, a couple of movies, 3 playlist and music videos, 1 tv program, and around 2000 pictures and having that download first. Yesterday, it downloaded all the pictures and then quick syncing. Last night it downloaded the tv program and the music videos and then quick syncing. It usually would download one movie and then quit syncing???? Network problem?, atv problem?, itunes Problem?
What does that mean if in the other account atv wouldn't show up?
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