Ipod will not upload tunes purchased thru ITMS

When updating my Ipod I get a message saying "some of the items in the ITMS including ..... were not copied to my Ipod because I am not authorized to play them on this computer"
I have authorized several times and which now says I have auth.. 3 computers whereas I have only one.
Can some advice be given as to why this happens and also what I have to do to copy them to my Ipod please. I have invoices for all my purchased songs.
ribbo39
Imac G5 Macbook Pro Ipod 60GB Mac OS X (10.4.7)

by picking each song individually and authorising my computer one by one

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