ITunes Authorization trouble -- 8.0, NOT 8.1

Sigh. After reformatting my hard drive, I tried to reauthorize iTunes and it was giving me a hard time, so I changed my password. Now, I still can't authorize it for my old stuff - new stuff works fine.
So I guess I somehow created a new account, but when I try to re-authorize the old stuff with my old account (the user name it says in the info summary for those tracks), it says my user ID (my yahoo email address) can't be found, which is how I ended up creating a new account in the first place. I have also tried every user name and password combo I could think of.
How can I make it play my songs if it doesn't recognize my user name??
(I haven't upgraded to 8.1 yet because of all the issues people seem to be having! But I don't think that's an issue because this has been going on for months now.)
Thanks so much!!

No suggestions? Anyone? PLLLLEEEEASSSEE....:)
Thank you!

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