Songs purchased on iPhone not syncing (Not authorized message)

One computer, one iPhone. I purchased tracks using iTunes on the iPhone. I sync'd up and immediately got the "Some of the items in the iTunes library, including "foo", were not copied to the iPhone "my iphone" because you are not authorized to play them on this computer."
I've seen the posts referring to adding the iPhone as an authorized machine in order to play ringtones, so I assume this is a related issue.
I have two questions:
1. How do I set the iPhone as an authorized machine? I see the item in the iTunes | My Account page but I see no way to edit this item.
2. Does Apple realize how insulting an error this is? I purchased the songs on the iPhone and now I'm not allowed to play them!!??? I get the whole DRM thing, but seriously, the sync should be smart enough to set the iPhone as authorized, or at least ask me to add it as authorized. It knows where I purchased them from.
Again, a simple dialog allowing you to add the iPhone would be far less annoying then the way iTunes behaves now.
Thanks in advance,
-Remi

Between you, me, and the rest of the world, I don't like Apple's angle on iPod/iPhone sync-ing and computer authorization/deauthorization in any case.
The computer deauthorization process contains at least one fatal flaw in that you can only deauthorize if you are physically on the computer to be deauthorized. I've got one that went up in smoke, and now I can't deauthorize it. So, there it sits taking up one of my precious 5 slots available. @#$%^&*!!! How 'bout letting me name my computers so that I can deauthorize any of them from any computer on the planet!?!?
Finally, when I sync-ed up with the my new computer, a bunch of my stuff got deleted. iTunes should NOT be in the business of deleting ANYTHING from MY iPod/iPhone during a sync unless, of course, I expressly choose it to be so!
I can dig the DRM issue as well, but, with just a bit more effort, iTunes can be tweaked to give the user needed flexibility while protecting property rights.

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