Cannot transfer iPad purchases to computer

I purchased a song on the iTunes Store via my iPad 2 last night, and the song won't transfer to my iMac when I sync the iPad to the Mac. I activated both of my iTunes accounts, but, still, the song won't transfer. How can I back it up on my Mac?

If the apps are not in your iTunes library yet - and they are not - hence this problem - then it may not be a good idea to restore. You can restore but may have to download the apps again. You can read this article about what iTunes stores in the backup.
All of your app data is saved in the backup but not the apps themselves. Anytime you restore from a backup you want to make sure that all of your content has been transferred to iTunes so that you can SYNC that content again after you restore the data from the backup.
At least that has always been my understanding. I did restore from a backup once myself a few months ago because I was having issues with an Exchange email account. I deleted the account from my iPad and had no success reloading it onto the device. I backup/transfer purchases/sync with iTunes virtually every night so I restored from my backup of the previous evening. All went smoothly but I did sync the content again as well.
Here is the article about backups.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4079

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This explains how to transfer purchases.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1848
You can download the purchases directly on the iPod as well as long as you use the same Apple ID that you bought them with.
This explains how to download past purchases from all of the iStores.
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iTunes says my purchases cannot transfer to my iPod because my computer is not authorized to play them.
Yet, after putting my password in to "authorize" the computer the purchases play just fine. Still, they cannot be transfered.
I took screenshots to email them to support, but as always they didn't know how to help me. I wish I could show them here, here is the description at least.
Itunes1. Here you can see that my iTunes is up to
date, the songs have been purchased, and they are
playing, thus showing that the computer IS activated.
Itunes2. Here you can see that my iPod software is up
to date.
Itunes3. Here you can see the error message that I've
been getting, that my computer IS NOT authorized. But
from jpg 1, you can see that it obviously IS
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Heellloooooooooooooooooo..............................................

Restore that backup you made?
You should be able to recover the media with the tips in this post from forum regular Zevoneer but I'm not sure what the implications are for your application settings. You can probably transfer your purchases into a newly authorised library, backup the device, recover any other media using third party tools, then restore the device from the backup. That might switch the assocation of the device to the new machine but I couldn't say for sure.
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After updating to iOS 5 on my iPad 2, updating my i7 iMac to the latest OS version (and a recent re-install of Lion b/c of an unrelated problem during a firmware update) and iTunes version I get an error that states:
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NeeeVer Mind!
It was greyed and I got that message yesterday afternoon.
Today......it's in there in my iTunes library.
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