ITunes blocking me from my own music

So when I updated my iPhone to iOS 5, i had to resync all of my music to my phone obviously. That went fine, except for a few things. Now there are about 17 random songs (not from the same album, playlist, just random songs) and it says I am not authorized to play and then the screen pops up for me to authorize it with my appleID and i type in my password and then it doesn't work, because the songs were not downloaded from iTunes, i put them on with CDs.... So iTunes is basically telling me that I dont have access to my own music uploaded via CDs. Its not too much of a problem, but its annoying. Anyone know why this happens? Thanks

hi Philip!
hmmmmm. if the ipod set-up assistant is showing up everytime you plug in the ipod, it may be worth checking on this possibility:
Windows confuses iPod with network drive and may keep iPod from mounting or songs may seem to disappear
love, b

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