HT203164 Error trying to burn a CD from an iTunes playlist - files not found on hard drive??

Question

I have a new computer with Windows 8 Home Premium.  Before the old computer crashed, I had backed up all my iTunes Media in the cloud.  I had also purchased a soundtrack album from the iTunes store and put the songs into a playlist.  All media was matched with the new computer, and the new computer was authorized by me in iTunes, so all my previous media shows up in iTunes on the new computer.  The only symbol next to the song titles in iTunes for all my songs is a picture of a tiny cloud.
When I play the songs in the playlist from the new computer in iTunes, they all play just fine.  However, when I try to burn a CD with the songs in the playlist, I get this error message (it has no number associated with it):  The song "[name of song]" could not be burned because the file cannot be found on the computer hard drive.  I tried burning CD's from any other playlist but was not able to burn a CD from ANY playlist; I get the same error message no matter what I try to do.  I would really like to be able burn CD's from iTunes, because that's what plays in my car.  Hooking up an iPod in the car does play music, but it is faded and of bad quality (my car is an '05 model).
Does anyone have any ideas on what is wrong here and how I can fix it so burning CD's in iTunes will again be an option?  I don't burn many CD's but would really like to be able to do so.  The version of iTunes I have is 11, all the iTunes files are updated, and the CD drive is working fine,  I am able to play CD's in iTunes from it and burn other songs to it using another media player.  I am also using top-quality new blank CD's, and when trying to burn a CD from a playlist, I select Audio CD with 2 seconds for the gap between songs, and the album text, then I select Burn.  I've tried selecting other options in turn, but get the same error message.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help with this issue - it seems I am the only one having it.

Answer 1

I actually solved this problem myself.  I discovered, while playing around with the new iTunes, that clicking on PLAYLISTS on the menu bar shows the playlists that I have created on the left side of the window (like the old iTunes used to do by default).  I scrolled down to the playlist I wanted to burn to a CD, right-clicked on it, and a menu came up.  I selected DOWNLOAD....this downloads my playlist songs from the cloud to my computer hard drive.  After that, the little "cloud pictures" next to my songs disappeared, and I was able to burn the CD with no problems.
I hope this helps someone else....I was quite lost for a while.  Which is amazing, considering how user-friendly most Apple products have historically been.