Burn fails - says I'm not authorized-BUT I AM!

Since upgrading to iTunes 7.6 I can no longer burn audio CD's. I have tried this with purchased music, rips from my own CD collection, and a mixture of both. In every case, as iTunes is "preparing" to burn the playlist it cancels the burn, ejects the disc, and gives me this message:
"One or more of the items in this playlist are not authorized for use on this machine. Authorizing this machine to play these items will allow them to be burned."
The problem is that the songs are already authorized and they play(ed) just fine. It's just the audio CD burn. I can burn a data CD fine. Anyhow, I went ahead and re-authorized. No luck. Then I DE-authorized and re-authorized again. Still no luck. By the way, I only have 3 computers authorized according to Apple (and that is correct).
I installed 7.6.1 this week thinking that perhaps this bug would be fixed, but it wasn't.

I have the exact same problem. I have songs that play fine, but give that error when I go to burn them. I tried de-authorizing and re-authorizing, and the same thing occurs. I have 3 out of the 5 authorized as well. The songs are an on external drive - haven't tried on an internal drive yet. Either way, this is pretty annoying!

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