ITunes Purchases no longer play on Authorised MacBook Pro

This is on my MacBook Pro 15, with iLife 08 and Leopard - ALL BANG UP-TO-DATE
Some of my Purchases (Not the most recent, nor the oldest) have stopped playing. I get the Apple User Authorise banner, asking for my password. I put the password in - it must be the correct password, i have verified it - and after a 20 second delay, I get an error message:
*THERE WAS AN ERROR STORING YOUR AUTHORIZATION DATA ON THIS COMPUTER, The required Directory was not found or has a permissions error, Correct the permissions and try again, or deauthorise this computer*
I have tried everything, I cannot deauthorise, since the process of this brings the same error message.
I do have Time Machine - would this help?
Message was edited by: Philly14

I don't think this is anything that TimeMachine can fix. but anytime you get a message regarding a permissions issue, as Jim VanLeeuwen suggested, run Disk Utility and Repair Disk Permissions. You can use the Disk Utility from your Applications/Utilities folder.
Carolyn

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