Downgrading to iTunes 8.2 from 9.01 broke a bunch of my authorizations

I, like a lot of you, completely had it with iTunes 9 so I downgraded to 8.2. I used my previous Library that the installer backed up, and TimeMachine to restore iTunes to the day before I upgraded originally. It worked seemingly flawlessly, except now almost all of my iTunes purchases keep telling me that the computer is not authorized to play that song. I will go ahead and authorize it (most seem to be my old account name, but some are the new iTunes account name) but it just keeps prompting me. I followed the Apple KB article and even got Apple Support involved, but nothing has fixed the problem as of yet. As a test, I took another system with iTunes 9.01 on it and connected to the shared Library. I was able to authorize that system successfully and play the music in question.
Has anyone else who downgraded had this happen? I guess I could try a clean 8.2 install and see what that does. I really hope I don't have to put 9 back on.
Thanks.
-Lou

I fixed this issue by upgrading back to 9.01 (and initially just living with it). I rebuilt my iTunes Library (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451) and that actually fixed all of my iTunes 9 problems.
-Lou

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