ITunes authorisation and laptop replacement?

Hello.. I had to send my Laptop for repair but was eventually given a replacement laptop in return...Luckily I had everything backed up just incase, but now I'm 1 down on my 5 authorisations, is there any way to reclaim this back? I've been tryin to look for contact details for apple with no luck..
So far ive got my PC, Work PC and Laptop authorised however only got 1 available to me.

Sorry, but there's no way for you to deauthorize systems you no longer have access to until you reach the five-system limit. Once you've reached five authorizations for that account, there will be a button in your iTunes Music Store account information (log into the iTMS in iTunes and you should see it) that can deauthorize all your system, at which point you can then reauthorize the ones you will be using.
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