My iTunes Plus songs are no longer Plus in iTunes

I upgraded my iTunes songs to Plus a year or so ago. I created an MP3 from one just to make sure the DRM was gone and it was. I paid my money and all is good. Today I want to make some more MP3 files to play in my car. Low and behold all my previously upgraded songs now show as PROTECTED in iTunes (for Windows) and when I try to create the MP3s is says I can't make an MP3 from a Protected song period end of sentence. I checked my iTunes Store account and there is no quick link to upgrade any of my songs, I did find the order where I paid to upgrade them a year ago but on my PC the songs have reverted back to protected with no option to unprotect them. Again the iTunes store says I have upgraded all my songs to PLUS but iTunes on my PC says the same songs are now PROTECTED.
I have gone through several iTunes upgrades since converting my songs to PLUS. I have no idea when the PLUS songs reverted back to PROTECTED. Any insight appreciated. J

OK.
The protected files are .m4a files and are encoded at 128kbs give or take.
I was able to find the MP3 files I created from them a year+ ago and they are 256kb. So I think I must have somehow deleted the .m4p files after creating the MP3s or does iTunes do that automatically.
My question now is when I upgraded my songs to PLUS did iTunes add a .m4p and keep the .m4a and when I created the MP3s did iTunes delete the .m4p files at that time?
At this point I am OK since I did find MP3 versions of all my PLUS songs and they are encoded at 256kbs.

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