Some purchased tunes not playing

I have a problem with some tunes purched from the iTunes store not playing, or being recognised by iTunes. It's best shown with an example.
I bought the Robbie Williams Album Intensive Care. 5 of the songs are playing fine. The other songs are in the same folder in my iTunes folder, but they don't show up in iTunes. If I try and import them into iTunes, it just does nothing. If I go to the finder and click on the "missing" tunes it doesn't give me the option to play them, like it does with normal music. It's not an issue of to many authorised computers.
Thanks in advance
Charlie

It sounds to me like those problem tracks either were corrupted in the download or aren't complete. I'd suggest that you contact the iTunes Store customer support department through the form at the bottom of their web page and explain the problem to them.
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