Front Row refusing to play my iTunes store purchases!

This never happened before, but when I go to play songs on Front Row which I purchased from the store, it says my computer isn't authorised and to enable it by going to iTunes, clicking authorise and signing in to my account. I've done this several times, and even whilst clicking onto every song I purchased.
What makes it stranger, is if I open iTunes, start playing a song I purchased and then go to front row whilst it's still playing, and click 'now playing', it shows the song and artwork and the song continues playing as normal. Now that I'm in front row, if I browse to that song and try to play it, it comes up with that message.
What is going on?!

James,
You may see my previous posts. I had the self same problem until I installed 10.4.9, but that also included the Front Row 1.3 update. Did you include that in your update? That may be the solution as my problem has now been resolved. Also if you look up and down this forum there are a number of threads with solutions such as deleting the .plist files. It seemed to work for others, but not for me.
Hope you sort it out
McD
17 inch iMac Core 2 Duo, 2GHz. 2nd Gen 4Gb Nano, 1st Gen 512mb iPod Shuffle. Mac OS X (10.4.7) G3 CRT Slot Loading iMac 600Mhz

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