Bought iTunes by iPod won't synch b/c "you are not authorized to play it.."

I bought iTunes using my daughter's computer and am trying to synch those songs to her iPod. The songs show up as "purchased" and they show in the Music library. When I synch her iPod, all of the songs I bought are not copied and each song shows an error status "You are not authorized to play it on this computer."
What is the problem? HELP and THANK YOU in advance!!

How do you do this? I just got this and I don't know how to fix it. It's never happened to me before. What do you do to authorize it. Where do you go?

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