Not authorized for purchased songs

I had to reinstall my computer. I had already bought some songs in the iTunes store. As I now have reinstalled my computer and therefore reinstalled iTunes 7.x.x again, iTunes tells me, that my already purchased songs can't be reloaded as I'm not authorized. When I access the iTunes store and click on my purchase history it shows me exactly all the songs I bought already.¨
How do I get these songs bnack into my library? I have them already stored in a folder but whenever I try to load these files back to the library the error occurs telling me, that I'm not allowed to hace these purchased songs on my iPod.
Would appreciate any support!

Did you attempt to re-authorize? Any time you do something like an OS re-install, iTunes views this as a "new" computer & requires the system to be re-authorized. The down side to this is, if you didn't deauthorize as suggested before any majore repairs, including OS re-install, you will be using a 2nd authorization on the same computer.

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