Old computer died before I could deauthorize- help!

I had iTunes set up on a Windows XP system. I had recently bought materials that I had not backed up to a cd, and I have about 15 bucks left on a gift card. My computer died.
I bought a Windows Vista system, and now I see that I had to set up a transfer of purchases and deauthorize my old computer... how can I do that when it's dead???
Am I totally out of luck here? What can I do to save all of my purchased music? If I have to reload all of my CD's, that's fine by me. I just want my 90 some purchased songs and I want what's left of the gift card.

You can't deauthorise a 'dead' installation on it's own, however you can authorise your new computer without deauthotising the old one. Also once you reach the limit of 5 authorisations, you have the option once a year to deauthorise them all in one go which will eventaully take care of the "lost" authorisation: About iTunes Music Store Authorisation and Deauthorisation

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