Authorized computer but can't play purchased music

When I select play for music purchased from iTMS I get a message that says 'this computer is not authorized to play this song. Would you like to authorize it?' and prompts me for my password. After putting in my password I get the message "machine authorization was successful' and then a new message pops up 'we could not complete your music store request. An unknown error occurred (208). I still can't play my purchased music. Has anyone encountered this - any suggestions?

Dboy - you the man! I went to your suggested link and took the advice of Barbara Hall of deleting the SC Info file and it worked like a charm. I also noted that as soon as I launched iTunes the file was created again. So I wonder if the problem will occur again. At least I'll know what to do next time.
Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post.
Regards!

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