Tranfer files from mini to iTunes that were purchased from iTunes Store

I'm sure this is a common question but on initial pass I did not find what I was looking for.
I had to restore my computer. I backed up the files and thought I had imported them but when I click on a file in iTunes it does exist. So then I thought okay I have all my songs on my Mini. So I authorized my computer. I chose to Transfer Purchases but this did not seem to work.
Can anyone tell me what I'm missing. I'm using version 7 of iTunes on Windows XP.
Additionally, when I click on the file that is missing it says do you want to find it. I browsed to the file where I had it backed up on a DVD and chose open. Nothing seemed to happen.
So I still have the DVD so any thoughts on this will also help.

I figured out what was going on. The transfer music did not work because the definitions of the songs were there but the files were not. So when it tried to transfer the purchases it thought it did not need to. So I deleted all the definitions in the library and then did the Transfer Purchases again. This time it worked.

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