Purchased songs not appearing in itunes library

Many of my past purchased songs were not appearing in my itunes library.     After trying many different methods (over 2 hours of investigation) I finally discovered that I need to check the box in the PREFERENCES that says   "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases".     
iTunes 11.0
EDIT -->  PREFERENCES -->  STORE --> "Show iTunes in the Cloud Purchases".
Then... all my songs appeared!
It's not clear to me when a purchase is "in the cloud" and when it's not ?   I'm not sure how that works... but this solved my problem.   Maybe it will solve it for you too!

Perhaps the files have been added to your library, but iTunes wasn't displaying them in the Music list for some strange reason. Apparently the most effective voodoo is to obtain the current "Free Single of the Week". It may be that any new purchase causes ITunes to reindex itself properly but this one seems to work, and is free.
Alternatively you could try closing iTunes, deleting the hidden file sentinel from within the main iTunes folder, and restarting. This should cause iTunes to run an integrity check on the database which will likely resolve any issues.
Turning on that option would let an empty library show links to your previous purchases for streaming or download purposes. It may also have triggered a reindexing of the library to compare local content with iTunes in the Cloud.
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