Itunes no longer authorised to play 50 songs on my Ipod!!!!

Very confused I plugged in my Ipod to charge and I got a message:
THis computer is no longer authorised to play purchased items that are on the ipod, would i like to authorise this computer for items purchased from itunes store.
If you do not authorise 50 songs will be removed from ipod.
When I click authorise i get Error we could not complete your itunes store request An unknow error occured (-42408) There was an error on itunes store please try later, but itunes store is working fine ?!
Help. I haven't changed any settings i just want my songs that i have paid for.

Sarah, try this.
Eject your ipod. Close itunes. Restart itunes withOUT your ipod connected. See if you can play one of those purchases in itunes.
If so, you can probably connect the ipod and have it work properly. There seems to be some bug where if the ipod gets plugged in and that opens itunes, the error 42408 happens. But if itunes is started BEFORE the ipod is connected, it's OK.
Good luck!

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