HELP! Not authorized to play downloaded songs?!

Hi..
I recently got my iPod nano (yesterday) and spent some time downloading my CD's onto it. That works out fine. However, I purchased one song off of iTunes, but when I try to add it to my iPod, it says that my computer is not authorized to play them on it.
What does this mean and can anyone help? Thanks in advance!

Play that song on your computer while connected to the Internet, and enter in any requested information. Doing this will authorize your computer to play the purchased music and enable its transfer to the iPod.
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