Need to restore corrupted purchased music

I backup my purchased music by burning a data disc DVD of a smart playlist that tracks purchases since the last backup.
Some purchased music files got corrupted on my hard drive and I have located them on my backup DVD, but they will not import to iTunes, let alone play.
Surely my computer is authorized to play these files - it is the same one I have always used. I hate to de-authorize and re-authorize if it is not necessary to do so.
What can I do?
Thanks!

I discovered the files got corrupted before backing up, since other files worked ok and only these would not. I have a new iPod and was copying from my iTunes library into it. The old iPod was not yet wiped clean, and it still had the working files on it, so I was able to Transfer Purchases from the old iPod into iTunes, and then copy them from iTunes to my new iPod.

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Into a new user account with a separate iTunes library? That's the idea.
1. Deauthorize the computer.
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