How to re-download iTunes content after drive failure?

Hi.
As posted elsewhere I've recently had a media drive failure resulting in the loss of all my downloads of my TV shows and Movies from iTunes. Being an idiot I never backed them up so I now have a dilemma. The half dozen movies I've probably lost now until the UK catches up with North America and allows Movies in the Cloud, however we are able to redownload TV Shows. Or so I thought.
My problem is that if I go to my 'Purchased' tab in iTunes Store and select one of my now missing TV Shows it says "Downloaded" in the popup window. If I delete the (now empty) programme folder from the iTunes TV Shows Library sidebar it still says the show is already downloaded. Anyone any ideas how I can reset that "Downloaded" back to "Download"?
Before I lost the media if I just deleted the programme from iTunes it reset the Downloaded tag, but this doesn't seem to be the case now.

Ah. It seems a few relaunches of iTunes, some choice swear words, threats of making the device airborne and a few minutes to allow its brain to kick in has reset things. Sorry to bother anyone. Please ignore

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