Itunes on new PC nighmare!

I have recently bought a new lap top and before this was running two ipods from same PC. I used to open up the different librarys by holding down the shift key. What has happend is I seem to have successfully transferred the music files and have the two libraries but I cannot download any new tunes I buy as it doesn't seem to recognise either of the ipod ID's. Can anyone throw some light on this?
I have just purchased a new iphone for myself and am reluctant to set this up in case I run in to problems.
Thanks

When I wanted to purchase some music from itunes before downloading it asks for the Ipod ID (on back of ipod)
Uh, no it doesn't.
Purchasing from the iTunes store has absolutely nothing to do with the iPod.
You may need to enter you iTunes ID and password to purchase from the iTunes store.
I'm kind of lost over what you are doing.
Why do you have two libraries?
Did you get everything onto the new computer?
Is the new computer authorized for your iTunes account (not the iPod)?

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