Dead iBook...Way to deauthorize it from another computer?

Yesterday the hard drive died in my iBook G4, and I have had a backup of all of the music on an external drive. I've put all of this music onto my old Windows desktop (sigh...). However, I am unable to authorize my desktop computer because the iBook was the fifth computer (out of the available five) to be authorized with my account, and now I'm left with a partially accessible iTunes music library. I never got a chance to deauthorize the iBook before it completely failed. It would be a nuisance to have to deauthorize the only other authorized computer in the house, my brother's iMac, in order to free up the last computer. Is there any possible way that I can deauthorize a computer who's hard drive has failed and is not accessible?

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You can deauthorize all 5 and then reauthorize what you want.
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