Previously purchased iTunes will not authorize or play

Hi,
I am having an iTunes Authorization problem.
In the past I purchased 55 songs from iTunes using the account name I had at that time (also my email at that time). Later I signed up for a .Mac account and got a new email and I changed my iTunes account name to that new email. I purchased items under this new name. Everything was fine ( i.e. - I could play all of my music ) until I downloaded and installed the latest iTunes 7.0.1. Playing of all music and syncing to my iPod was working fine even after I installed iTunes 7.0.0.
Here is what is happening now:
Items purchased from iTunes under the current iTunes account name play fine on my Mac and transfer to my iPod.
Items purchased in from iTunes under my former iTunes account name will NOT play on my Mac and I get a message when I try to sync my iPod saying that I am not authorized to play 55 items and that they will NOT be transferred to my iPod. When I try to play one of these 55 songs on my Mac I get the pop-up asking me to authorize the old iTunes account name. When I type in the password iTunes says the account does not exist and authorization fails. So I CANNOT play any of these 55 songs that I purchased.
What can I do to fix this ? I have 55 songs that I paid for from the Apple iTunes store that are now rendered worthless to me. Please help !!
Gary Anderson

I've already tried the DVD drive with the same results. iTunes also will not burn from the library or an inserted disc. Other programs allow me to burn CD's, but not DVD's. (That's a whole other problem...) Since other programs will rip and burn, that would mean the problem is with iTunes, not the drives, no? I've also tried to uninstall and reinstall iTunes to no avail. Quite frustrating.

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