Locked songs after restoring music folder

I am running 10.3.9 with iTunes 7.0 on an iBook G4. The hard disk just died and needed to be replaced. Fortunately I had a back up drive, so I have been able to restore nearly all the data, but with one big problem. My daughter's iTunes music folder has over 2,000 songs in it and most were purchased from ITMS. On both the back-up hard disc and on the restored laptop all the songs that were purchased are "locked." If I go down to the individual file and open it (not from iTunes) it makes me log into the music store and "reauthorize" the song. I have already reauthorized the machine. The AppleCare folks said my only alternative was to do this one song at a time! There has to be a better way - any ideas? I've heard you can restore a library from the iPod in iTunes 7.0, but everything I've read indicates you need to do that by moving a music folder with the iPod basically serving as a back up disc. That won't work here because all the songs in the folder are already locked.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You posted on the iTunes for Mac forum and I'll request this be moved as sometimes the answers will vary on the different platforms.
Did you only copy music, or did you copy the whole iTunes folder (I hope very much you copied it all as it contains the library files that form the core of your collection management)?

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