Missing iTunes on my iPod mini, please help

I used to have some itunes that I had paid for on my ipod mini but tonight when I updated my ipod I receieved a message that read, "some of the songs in the iTunes music library including the song "100 years," were not copied to the iPod "Alissa's iPod" because you are not authorized to play them on this computer." My iTunes have been erased from my iPod but are still on my computer iTunes. This message is very confusing to me because I downloaded these songs from iTunes onto the only computer that I use to update my iTunes on. I don't understand why I wouldn't be authorized to use iTunes on my iPod all of a sudden when I was authorized before. Can anyone help me get my songs back onto my ipod? All of my other songs in my library that I have from my cds are still on my ipod, I'm only missing the downloaded iTune songs.

First of all, ensure that you are using the lates iTunes which is version 4.9
Then try Deauthorizing and then reauthorizing your computer, and see if this fixes the transfer issue.

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