De-authorization of old drives?

So I reformatted my hard drive and reinstalled and what not and I forgot to de-authorize my iTunes, and now when I try to authorize it with my account so I can do Home Sharing with my other computer it tells me I already have 5 computers authorized with my account. I've gone through all the different computers that I've used over the years and de-authorized my account on all of them, and that didn't seem to work, so the only explanation that I can think of is since I've reformatted a few times that I didn't de-authorize before hand. Is there anyway for me to get around this and be able to authorize my computer so I can use Home Sharing and listen to my older DRM purchased songs?

Oh, well, thank you very much!
I'm now a little disappointed in myself because I feel like I've actually done that before...

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