Same Apple ID, but some purchased songs not shown in history.

I've had the same Apple ID since I bought my first song on iTunes in the early 2000s.  However, I've changed the email address associated with it several times.  My iTunes library contains songs that show one of my past emails, but I only have to authroize the computer with my -one- Apple ID (as expected, since the underlying ID has never changed).  This is the same when authroizing songs to play on my iPhone.  It may ask for one of my old addresses, but I'll just correct the address to the current one and it works perfectly.
I thought about redownloading songs so that they have the current email address associated with them.  However, after a cursory review of my past purchase history I'm finding many songs that I currently own that do not show up.  What is interesting is that the purchase history includes many songs, movies, and tv shows that I know I purchased when I used one of the many different email addresses (again, the same Apple ID).
Why would some (maybe TONS, I haven't looked thoroughly) of my songs be missing from the purchase history in order to redownload them?

You haven't changed countries since buying them (content is tied to the country as well as the account), they are still in your country's store (content providers occasionally remove their items ; if they are no longer in your store then they won't be redownloadable), and they aren't hidden : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4919 ?
But if it's the same account then it should automatically pick up the current version of the account in your library, so a previous email address shouldn't show on them. You've tried logging out of your account via the Store > Sign Out menu option and then signed back in to see that gets them all to show the correct id on them ?

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