How to fix switching from PC to Mac and not being able to deauthorize PC's?

I have recently changed all 5 of my home computers to only 3 Mac's. When I sold the PC I deauthorized them. However now that I have up graded my Mac to a newer version I am not able to play the music I had already purchased in iTunes. The message it gives me is that I can not deauthorize the computer until Feb of 2008. Is there a work around this? I would like to listen to my music.

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