Problems loading iPod music onto a second computer (authorization issues?)

Hi everyone -- I've spent over 3 hrs on this problem without finding an answer, so hoping someone can help!!
I bought a Dell laptop (running Windows XP) which I now use as my primary computer, and am trying to upload my iTunes music onto it. I have authorized it over and over several ways:
1. iTunes store -> authorize computer (I get an "authorization successful" response)
2. trying to play a song off my iPod and having iTunes respond with a "you're not authorized, do you want to authorize?" and I say yes and keep re-entering my account info and am told again it's now authorized.
But when I try to go to File -> Transfer purchases from Owner's iPod, I get a response that says "some of the purchases on your iPod could not be transferred because you're not authorized to play them on this computer" and once again asks me if I want to authorize. And NONE of the music is transferred.
So I went to check my account info to make sure it was authorized, and it said ONE computer was authorized. I thought this odd, since my original desktop computer (which has my full iTunes music library and plays and syncs with two iPods with no problem) would've been authorized... so I went to that desktop and tried to DEauthorize it, and was told that I couldn't because it wasn't authorized in the first place (which would explain why my account info said one authorized after doing my laptop). Does this make sense, that the desktop computer which I used to purchase all my iTunes msic and which works fine playing it and syncing to my two iPods would NOT have been authorized? ANYWAY, I then authorized this original desktop to see if it would change anything, and my account info did in fact change to say that now TWO computers are authorized, but when I went back to my laptop and re-attempted File -> Transfer purchases from Owner's iPod, I had the exact same problem (it says "not authorized"). I have also tried rebooting the laptop, as well as trying to do this with both of my iPods separately.
I am pulling my hair out! I don't have another external drive large enough to try to transfer the music files a different way, and really I should be able to use my iPod to do this for goodness' sake, right?!
Thanks for any help you can give!
Jen

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