Ipod only partially transferring purchased songs to library.

Hello --
I recently experienced a hard drive and backup failure. I'm trying to transfer my purchased music from my ipod to my itunes library. It transfered most of it, but there are 74 songs that it says were not purchased with an account authorized on my computer. I have my account and my husbands authorized. I have not synced my ipod with anyone else's computer and these songs are not songs that my husband would even listen to! All of these were purchased with my account. What to do?

You need to copy them from the computer you purcahsed them with to the other computer. You can use CD/DVD, external hard drive, flash drive or network the computers.
ALso how do I guarantee that all my purchased and downloaded songs stay in my itunes account
Songs don't "stay" in your account. They stay on your computer and on your backup disks. If you get rid of your computers befefore you make a backup of your songs, you will lose your songs.

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