Only two computers authorized but ACC songs won't copy to iPod.

Today I purchased some new music from iTunes. Once I was finished downloading iTunes informed me that I might want to upgrade the software on my iPod. I did. Then when it went to sync everything it came up with the following message.
"Some of the items in the iTunes library including "Say It Ain't So", were not copied to the iPod "Ben's iPod" because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
I checked online and iTunes say that only 2 computers are authorized, which means I've got 3 to go. The other weird thing is that these new songs and some other protected ACC songs purchased form iTunes were copied and work fine on my iPod. Does anyone know what's going on here. I'm stumped.

b noir:
your initial reply, which at first seemed promising, has now taken me to a whole other level of difficulty. allow me to elaborate.
1) i have attempted to play one of the aforementioned purchased songs in my itunes library, per your advice (not on my ipod, but on my imac). upon doing so, i get the error message:
"This computer is not authorized to play "______." Would you like to authorize it? The message box displays the Apple ID and asks me for the password.
2) all well and fine, except that the email address which displays in the message box as my Apple ID is old and obsolete--way obsolete. So of course, if I enter my present password, it will not match this old ID.
3) i attempted to change this old ID to my present ID. when I did so, my present ID, which DOES match my present password (and, thus, which i DON'T want to change), showed up as the ID to change.
4) what do i do? at this point i'm stuck.

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