Purchased music now "unauthorized" on computer and won't transfer to iPod

Hardware: I have a 60 GB video ipod for 7 months, have had the same computer for 3 years, and same operating system for 2 months.
Timeline: Last week everything was working with my iPod and my entire iTunes library was successfully updated to my ipod. In the meantime, I backed my entire computer up onto a Firelite 100GB Firewire Drive. Today, I plugged my ipod into my computer and autosynced with iTunes.
Problem: iTunes told me that certain songs would not update to my ipod because I was not authorized to play them on my computer. All the songs in question were ones I had legally purchased through iTunes music store--every single one of them. (My songs that I uploaded into iTunes from my personal CDs were not affected). Rephrased, all my iTunes purchased music was taken off my iPod.
Questions: Is this an iTunes issue, a Firelite issue, or some other problem? Did I violate some iTunes user agreement by backing up my computer, which includes my itunes library?
Any help is appreciated. Thank You.
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play one of your purchased songs in iTunes, when it
askes you for your info, enter it to reauthorize the
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Thank You. What a simple solution that should have been more obvious to me, but it wasn't. So, thanks to you I won't be spending my time cursing my software and hardware at great length. iTunes is now updating my ipod with all my purchased music in what looks to be a very fun-filled hour.
Thanks again for the solution.

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