Computer Hard Drive crash

So, here's the deal. I paid for a bunch of music - at least 100 bucks worth. My harddrive recently crashed, and I was unable to recover the songs, or any data for that matter. How do I go about re-getting these songs? I know that apple's got a history of what I've downloaded, and I should be able to get these back, right?
So my question is this: How do I go about getting the songs that I paid for?

I back up my hard drive to an external hard drive weekly.
But this post has reminded me that I also need to buy a stack of CDs and burn my music purchased from iTunes onto CDs just to have backups.
I think I should burn them in standard CD format just so I can play them on any CD player and not just with MP3 players. Blank CDs are only US $0.25 or so.

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If you have a Mac, it's pretty easy. But you don't (should I make a pitch for you to get a MacBook Pro in the future)?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300173
How to use your iPod to move your music to a new computer using iTunes6
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304304
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