Some purchased songs not transferring.

I have two songs that I have purchased that will not transfer to my library. I have since purchased one more and it transferred just fine. I have tried deauthorizing and then authorizing and that has not worked either. Any suggestions?

I'm having the same problem. I have a lot of songs I've downloaded straight to iPhone over the last few months. After updating the firmware to 2.2 last weekend I've been unable to transfer the songs to iTunes on my PC.
Like others, the songs show on iTunes only under the actual iPhone/Music list. They play fine from there and from the iPhone itself - ie, they're on the iPhone. But when I try to 'Transfer Purchases from iPhone' I get a -1303 error telling me the attempt failed (usually without transferring any songs, but rarely transferring one).
When I try to see the songs on the iPhone using third-party software like Winamp or sharepod I can only see those already transferred - which appear under a 'Purchased' playlist.
I initially restored the iPhone to a recent backup. Then I uninstalled/resinstalled iTunes. I was going to try another restore but got a warning stating that I had files which hadn't yet been transferred and proceeding would wipe them out and I'd be forced to repurchase them.
Has anyone got a solution or at least an explanation for this?
Corey: Could you verify for me if the solution you got from support has meant your iPhone can now transfer songs downloaded to it as it's supposed to? It sounded like they just gave you credit to repurchase your songs through iTunes, waited for you to wipe the copies on the iPhone off and that was it. I don't really want to be forced to use iTunes on my PC exclusively to download - it defeats the purpose of having iTunes on the phone.

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