***iTunes HDCP Error***

I am attempting to purchase two movies in HD. The iTunes Store keeps telling me that I cannot play the content on my computer in HD even though I am running Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium which has the HDCP components installed, and I never had ANY kind of a problem like this in the past. What is going on?

I'm sorry, but I don't think that's the problem...
I have a Mac Pro with an Apple Cinema Display 23', and it worked fine, I could watch all movies, until I upgraded my video card for a new one. My MacPro came with an ATI video card, and I it stopped working. So I had to replace it for new one and I've choose a new nVidia gForce 285. Since then I can't watch any HD movie I downloaded from iTunes Store. In this case the problem is with the video card, that is not recognized as an HDCP device or something related. I'm trying to contact Apple to see what can be done with this problem and I suggest you guys to do the same. Some one must realize that some Apple computers will not have configurations 100% made by Apple.
Best Regards
-Bruno

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