Cant authorize;  cant deauthorize;  CANT PLAY ANY PURCHASED SONGS

cant authorize.
cant deauthorize.
i cant play any of my purchased iTunes music.
it gives the error message about fixing permissions. i have done that. many times.
it also says to deauthorize/authorise but ofcourse i cant do that.
i have deleted all ref to iTunes in keychain and all apple IDs. and recreated them all. still no go.
since iTunes 8 there really are so many problems...

simply reinstalled iTunes 8 and authorized.
works.

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