Itunes Music Not Recovered From Flash Drive

I backed up my itunes library on a flash drive.  My new computer will not play Apple purchases.  The error messages are "Computer not authorized", even though it has been, or "Original file could not be found" and the file will not come up when I hit the "locate" button.  The Apple store has no record of former ID's under my e-mail address, and only has one purchase on record. 
I have not had any problems with Amazon purchases.

Hello Limnos,
Thanks again for all your help.
Since my initial response I've looked in a little more depth at the track names.
All my files are stored and played at CD quality from the original CD rather than MP3.
It appears that track names are extracted from the Library and look a little different from those that appear in the iTunes playlist.
I see now that the first element of the track name is the track number from the original CD. So if my playlist is made up of 3 CDs then all the track 01s get stored first and played first, followed by track 02s etc.
I do not think it will take a great deal of effort to renumber the tracks from 01 to xty in what ever order I want them played since I usually play complete albums all the way through.
Thanks again,  Steve. 
BTW. Based on this I went out today and bought an 8Gb flash drive that I shall use to take our music with us on holiday.  Saves a great weight in CDs! (and lets us get under new airline weight restrictions)

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