Authorized music won't play on my computer when it's already authorized

I recently had a HD failure, and had to mirror the drive and do a transfer to a new drive. After the transfer some of my music will not play on my machine, but WILL on my other IOS devices...
Right now it asks me to authorize the music, says my devices is already authorized and when you play the song it just repeats over and over and over.
Things I have done..
Deauthorized all machines on my itunes account
Deleted the SC Info folder
Checked to make sure it is the correct account name
Here is where I think my issue is. I had an original itunes account that had a shorter username that wasn't associated to an email account and a short password that was grandfathered in. Eventually I had to update all my information on the account to have a email address and longer password, it took forever to fix and over an hour on the phone with apple support.
At that point all my music still played, BUT every purchase I made before that does not show up now in previous purchases. In fact MOST of my purchases do not show up on my account, I THINK that is because I purchased them over my phone and pushed them out to other devices.
I just want these couple albums to play again and it is incredibly frustrating that I can't play them.

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http://howto.cnet.com/ios-6-complete-guide/
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Apple - iPad - Guided Tours
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