Logic board replaced lost itune authorizations

Just got my powerbook back from apple and discovered all my purchased music needs to be reauthorized! The logic board was replaced. The Genuis at the bar gave no warning about this. Anyone have any clues as to what happened and what I can do? Thanks in advance. Daron Powers

Check out this knowledge base article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014
To get your computer with the new logic board to play your purchased music, you will have to authorize that computer again, since it has a new logic board (and therefore, new hardware identification.) Yes, this will use up one of your 5 allocated simultaneous computers that can be authorized. If you only have one or two other computers, then you really don't need to worry about having that one authorization 'used' by the old logic board.
There is no way to de-authorize that old logic board at this point. Once you have 5 computers authorized, you can, once per year, de-authorize all, following the instructions in that article above. That will then reclaim the authorization that went with your old logic board.
So, it isn't lost and gone forever, but it isn't trivially easy to get it back either.
Hope this helps.
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