Purchased Music No Longer Plays.

I had to reinstall Windows and all of my programs. I had a back-up of my songs and transferred them over, but now I get an error for any purchased music in Itunes 6.0. I get a message to put in my Apple password, then another that says I can't play the songs after I put in my password. Is there anything that can be done so I don't have to pay for all these songs again?
Thanks!

This might not be the solution, but I think I can explain your problem a little more clearly. iTunes might not recognize your computer because iTunes has a feature that permits a certain number of computers to have access to your account (say, if you had 2 computers and used the same account on iTunes for both). Maybe this would be the problem--alas, I don't have a solution for you.
Get b noir to answer this, he/she is the best one here that I'm aware of

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