I am unable to authorize my itunes account on my new MacBook.

It keeps showing 'unknown error -42408'.  I have two Apple IDs and it shows the same error message for both.
It could well be related to the fact I removed itunes 11 from the new laptop and reinstalled itunes 10 because it is significantly better (but it wont be if I can't play any of the music I purchased on itunes!!).

See this document:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3258
If you simply removed iTunes '11 and reinstalled iTunes 10, then some ressources will be missing, since iTunes comes as part of the system. The best you can do, is upgrading to iTunes '11 again, unless you want to do the full Monty and donwgrade MacOS X as well - reinstall an older MacOS X version and upgrade all but iTunes.
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