ITunes deauthorize and lost songs

I no longer have a computer that has my iTunes on it. It also has some of my purchased songs on it. How do I deauthorize a computer and how do I get those songs back. Because some of those songs are not on any of our iPods.

See if you can recreate it from the XML file. Make sure Windows Explorer is set to show file file extensions before doing these steps.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1451

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This is a user to user forum - not Apple. Contact them http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/
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