One computer, 4 authorizations for same song on it: what's with that?

I have only used one computer and my iphone for the itunes I have purchased but when I went to play a purchased song iTunes said I had to authorize it on this same computer. Then iTunes said I only had one autorization left. This problem is likely due to the fact that I had to resore my itunes from a windows live onecare backup after reformatting the c drive. Is there a way I can always have the songs I originally inported or downloaded into this specific computer recognize themselves as authorized always on this computer one time? When I resored, iTunes set the songs up in a differnt iTunes directory than it was formerly in. All my other mp3s moved around ok. Can somebody help me with this? I'm not going to buy this stuff over and over again nad if I can't get it to work, I'll download elsewhere than from iStore.

Hi madwulf;
WARNING I just received word from the IBM CERT Team that the security for Microsoft Live has been breached. Their recommendation is to have nothing to do with it until Microsoft is able to redo the security. At the present time the hackers are to defeat the Microsoft Live security one third of the time.
Allan

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