Bought song on my Mac, now can't play it on my PC - HELP!

Okay so through my iTunes at work on my Mac, I bought a bunch of songs. Now I have the songs in iTunes on my PC at home and when I click on them it says that I am not authorized to play the song. So I enter in my user name and password, it says it has authorized it (1 out of 5 allowed authorizations), but STILL won't play! The e-mail that pops up in the authorize window is my work e-mail address that I used a long time ago when I started using iTunes. (by the way, the songs play fine on my iPod). I have since changed it to my home e-mail--and that is the one that lets me authorize it. It says it's authorized, then when I go to play it, the window pops up again with my work e-mail id. So when I went to do a search for the password for my work e-mail (thinking that maybe i just forgot what it was since it was a long time ago), it tells me that that id is not valid. What is the deal? Does it have something to do with mac>pc? How can I get around this?
Thanks for any insight!

I can find the flders I had there.
You mean you can't find the folders you had there?
What folders? Email folders? iDisk folders?
If iDisk folders, iDisk doesn't exist in iCloud. You should've backed up anything in your iDisk before migrating to iCloud. You can still access iDisk until it is shut down by logging back into MobileMe in System Preferences.

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