Cannot play songs/videos I purchased in iTunes store

All of a sudden I cannot play songs from the iTunes Store anymore. I buy it, download it, it appears in the list but it won´t play. Trying to convert to AAC gives me error code -208.
I have 4 out of five computers activated.
When I click on a song, it´s title and duration appears on top of the iTunes window but nothing happens then. When I buy a song on my other Mac and move it to my first one it plays with QuickTime. Once imported to iTunes it does not play anymore.
I reinstalled iTunes again - no difference.
All the movies I had within iTunes before and which are still in the folder iTunesMusic/Movies don´t play anymore. They just do nothing. I cannot re-import them into iTunes. Open with iTunes just shows no reaction at all.
Same with some of the songs that played perfectly well before.
Movies create a error message about an invalid public atom and do not play with e.g. Quick Time.
Any idea?
Message was edited by: wobo63

Found this in another thread
These are the instructions I received. The movies downloaded immediately.
+You will need to follow these steps to resolve the issue.+
+- Sign out of iTunes by going to the top menu bar then going to Store and clicking on Sign Out+
+- Quit iTunes+
+- Follow the instructions in the "Remove the SC Info folder" section of this article:  +
+http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1389
+- After removing the SC Info folder, reopen iTunes.+
+- Sign into iTunes by going to the top menu bar then going to Store and clicking on Sign In+
+- Now go to Store again on the top menu bar and go to Authorize Computer.+
+- Choose Check for available downloads from the Store menu.+

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