Merging files purchased under two seperate accounts.......

I have song within I tunes that were purchased under a specific ITunes account. When I deleted that e-mail account I created another ITunes account with my new e-mail account. I now have a variety of files in Itunes under two seperate accounts. My first question is, how can I merge these accounts so that my files are listed under my active account? Secondly, this is creating problems as I have activated another pc and am trying to synch my original library on the new pc.
Can anyone help?

You can't merge 2 accounts. The purchase name is embedded in each file and you are going to have to authorize using both accounts forever.
Each account has a limit of 5 PCs that you can authorize. So just activate both PCs with both accounts - use the Store > Sign Out menu item to switch between accounts.
This is a user chat board, and you're welcome to ask iTS support to merge your accounts, but others have not been successful.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/email/

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