Purchased songs now show a message: "not authorized to play them...."

Hi,
I purchased a bunch of music from istore, no problem. Downloaded them to my iPod nano, no problem.
I logged in and hooked up my iPod today and received this message:
"Some of the songs in the iTunes Music Library, including the song "my own two hands", were not copied to "Pearl's iPod" because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
I don't get it. Only think that changed is I had the keyboard, fans and display screen on my laptop replaced recently. Not sure why that would interupt the ipod information. This is the same computer I purchased them only, same iPod they were originally copied to. Is it not recognizing my ipod for some reason? How do I get this to go away and let me listen to the songs I purchased on my ipod?
thanks!!
pearl

Hi,
I purchased a bunch of music from istore, no problem.
Downloaded them to my iPod nano, no problem.
I logged in and hooked up my iPod today and received
this message:
"Some of the songs in the iTunes Music Library,
including the song "my own two hands", were not
copied to "Pearl's iPod" because you are not
authorized to play them on this computer."
I don't get it. Only think that changed is I had the
keyboard, fans and display screen on my laptop
replaced recently. Not sure why that would interupt
the ipod information. This is the same computer I
purchased them only, same iPod they were originally
copied to. Is it not recognizing my ipod for some
reason? How do I get this to go away and let me
listen to the songs I purchased on my ipod?
thanks!!
pearl
No, and you can't. Basically there is nothing you can do to fix this. Tough luck.

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