Hard Drive Fail - Transfer Purchased not working

Hi
The hard drive on my 3 year + 2 month old Macbook Pro died a week ago (2 months out of its extended warranty, not that it cost a lot to repair). My back-up included 99% of the files on the drive. Between my back-up and managing to access the disk from another drive I've got 99% of my iTunes library. Just the one album has a lot of its tracks missing (A favourite.. you might know. Seethers Deluxe Holding Onto Strings).
I've had the Macbook repaired and it's back and working fine. I've reauthorized it ... got a message saying "Including this computer you have authorized one of your five" so I'm assuming it's picked up that it's the same device. If I click on "Add or edit my products" under this discussion dialogue, it shows just the one MacBook Pro which suggests this is so.
OK... so.. I hook up the iPhone (where the album is complete) and in iTunes (11.0.4) choose "Transfer Purchased Files". I don't get any messages to confirm or deny anything nor any feedback to suggest real activity. The album in iTunes remains incomplete.
iTunes lists all the tracks, but against some, instead of the track number, there is a circle with an exclamation mark in it. I get a message about the original file being missing (which they are.. I've checked the music directory) if I attempt to play them.
I've been onto the store, revisiting where the album is still available and there appears to be no download option, just "play".
So... what do I do? I'm wondering if I should delete the songs from iTunes so they're completely absent, no markers even, but I'm a bit concerned this'll worsen things. If someone can reassure me or advise me what else I should do, that'd be really cool.
Thank you.
All began with a 11fx ... Macbook P i7 17" (10.7.5), iPhone 4, iPad 3 iOS 6.0
Newly purchased MacMini i7 (10.8.4) c/w Cintiq HD24. Looks like NASA central!

Ok, solved. Third party app.

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