Converted iTunes MP3 Files Won't Play in PowerPoint

Help! I had music on my laptop before owning an iPod, and when I loaded iTunes all my music files converted to iTunes. I have several PowerPoint presentations that run to music, and now the songs won't play in the presentations. I converted the iTunes files back to MP3 format, but they still won't play in the PowerPoint presentations.
How can I get these songs, which I owned long before I loaded iTunes, to play in my presentations? Everything was fine until I loaded iTunes. I am extremely frustrated--those presentations represent WEEKS worth of work, and now they are useless.

thompsa
Where did you get them? Are they DRM'd?
Regards
TD

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