Songs not authorized to play....HELP!!

my daughter wasin a hurry and somehome restored her ipond nano-- when she did this, her account ID is now not recognized?? i also have my sone using my computer with his ipod...they both were using my email address. now all her purchased songs are locked and unauthorzed but she can not sign in -- the apple ID does not exist???
Help!!

sorry for all those typos---
this ipod is so frustrating --
i have two kids downloading songs on my computer--
now we have a seperate computer for my daughter -- and we are trying to transfer her songs from this computer and ipod to the new computer---- well-- it does not even recognize that she owns those songs -- ?

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