ITunes says my computer is "unauthorized" to play music.

I just had my notebook repaired by Apple and had the Logic board replaced. I got my computer back with my hard drive untouched (all of my music is still on there), but iTunes won't sync my purchased songs to my iPod. It claims that my computer is "unauthorized" to play my purchased music and when I try to authorize it, it says I have already authorized 5 computers and that I will have to deauthorize another one.
How do I fix this? One of those 5 computers is technically THIS one, but is it just not recognizing that because it has a partially new system running it?

That helped a lot, and authorized a few hundred that weren't authorized before. I still have 60, however, that are unable to be authorized.
It asks me to login to my AOL account, which is different from my Apple account. For some reason, that won't work either. Is there a way to link the two together?

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