I bought a new computer, transferred music, but purchased music not working

I am going from a computer with 4 accounts, each having it's own iPod application and library to a new computer. I want to (a) eliminate user accounts and have one big iTunes library, and multiple users choose what music they want from that library; and (b) be able to use the purchased music.
I had no problem transfering all the music, however, because I reinstalled iTunes, and I happen to have a new email account, I created a new iTunes account. Even though I followed the directions to "Authorize this computer", the purchased music in my librarly will NOT synch up to my iPod.
Also, I've spent hours trying to figure out how to have four people share the library so I'm not duplicating the iTunes application or all that music, and I cannot figure out a way to do it. Even creating specific playlists doesn't work, it downloads all the music (that I didn't buy) anyway.
Help!!!

I've had similar issues. I purchased a MacBook, followed the instructions to transfer my library to my new machine using my iPod, and it would not sync 140 songs to the iPod.
Then, I purchased a movie from the iTunes store, it downloaded, won't play on the MacBook, and when I tried to sync it to my video iPod, it said that it couldn't sync it to the iPod because that iPod was not capable of playing videos.
I've restored it twice, reinstalled itunes, reinstalled the library. No change.

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