Recovered purchased songs don't go into purchased playlist

I dutifully used iTunes to backup my purchased songs. Worked like a charm and was able to recover them no problem. Well, one small problem. They came back into the general library but did not go into the Purchased playlist.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
T.

I just created a regular playlist titled: -purchased old. Then I sorted by type to get all of the protected songs in a group and dragged them to the playlist. Another option would be to use a smartlist that constantly pulls purchased songs in by type (I think that's an option).

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