Re-bricked my hardrive and now I am being told that I cannot d/l my iTunes

Purchased music to my iPod. I am being told that it is only authorized for use on one device. This is the only device I have ever used. My disk was full on my computer, so I saved all my music, photos, and documents and reinstalled Windows ME software, wiping out my entire hard drive. Then upgraded to Windows XP, then reinstalled all my basic software, including iPod and iTunes from the iPod I just purchased two weeks ago. All music/videos I have download from iTunes have been purchased within the last two weeks. I backed them up and reinstalled them on my computer and now I'm told that I cannot put them on my iPod because I am only authorized for one device.
Questions #1: How can I put my iTunes purchased music back onto my iPod (my one and only device).
Questions #2: How can my music be authorized for more than one device, if I purchase another iPod for my husband? Will I have to buy all my music twice?
I just spent over $200 on music and videos from iTunes in the past two weeks and now I can't use any of them. What is the solution? It's kind of upsetting to lose that much money so fast. Makes me think I should have bought the cds instead. Please help!

I also had system issues a couple of weekends ago. I had to restore my computer. Once complete I reinstalled iTunes and then set all of my backup files in place (I back up my iTunes folder everytime I purchase something). The problem is, everytime I click on anything I purchased, movie or song, it tells me I am not authorized on this computer. I also am using just one computer and have been using the same one for the last couple of years. I attempted to deauthorized my system by following the instructions here in the forum plus instructions found on the site. After aproximatly 30 minutes I gave up on entering my user name and password over and over and over again. Do you know of anything else I can try? Thank you for the assistance:-)

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