I can't find some of my songs.

Hello,
I purchased several songs on an authorized computer quite awhile back (more than a year ago) and I no longer have access to that computer. Some (not all) of the songs purchased from the other computer are not in my library on this machine. I'm inclined to think that I did put them on this machine because most of the purchases from the old computer are here, however, I can't be 100% positive that I transferred ALL the music. Based on what I've read, Itunes only allows you to download a song once, but at this point, repurchasing the music is not an option. When I go to the Itunes store and look up the desired songs, they show "purchased" and I can't buy them again. Most of the time, for me, there's something very simple that I'm just overlooking and I'm hoping that's the case here. Any suggestions on how to retrieve the missing songs would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Thank you for the reply.
I performed several searches to no avail. I purchased six songs from one of the albums in question, and from that purchase, I only have one song left in my library, and it's in there twice. I have a seperate external hard drive that I use to back up my media files, and I found the same thing there. I'm sure that I probably just botched the transfer somehow and just didn't catch it at the time.
Assuming that all the missing songs are lost, how would I go about buying them again from Itunes? When I go to the Itunes store and find the songs that I had, they all show "purchased" and the button that I would normally click to buy a song is not available.

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