I cant play purchased music

I can't play or burn to cd music I purchased, it says to authorized the computer, then when I do, it says this computer is already authorized

What iPod do you have? There is a software update for iPods available at Apple. (Update was 2006-09-06). Doing this meant I can now get my store purchased tunes on my pod.
I struggled to get it to work though. It said it had done it and it hadn't. I had to (after downloading the update) ....
Go to Applications / Utilities / Ipod Software Update
Open the newest update
Factory reset my ipod from the menu
It then installed the newest version of software and everything workes fine now.
Good luck.

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