Purchased playlist crashing iTunes

Something just happened when I purchased two songs from the iTunes store. The first one seemed to download okay, but the second one caused a glitch.
Now when I go to my Purchased playlist, I always get "iTunes has stopped working."
"Check for available downloads" tells me everything I've purchased has been downloaded.
Repurchasing the track tells me I already own it (so I exit out), though it's not showing up in a search of my music collection.
Please help. My favorite playlist is my Purchased one!

I wonder if the song that you can't find is corrupted and causing iTunes to crash.
Try looking for the file using Windows explorer when iTunes is closed, as I am sure you know iTunes puts files in folders by artist then album so it should be easy enough to find. When you find it it, try double clicking on it to see if iTunes will open and play the file, if there is a problem you will know that there is a problem with that file. Try moving it another folder away from iTunes.
If you have a bad file, you need to contact iTunes customer service to allow you to re-download it.
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/

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