Trying to play old itunes purchases on new mac

I am trying to move my music over from my old Mac, but all of the songs I purchased through itunes will not play because"you already have authorized 5 computers with your apple id".  When I go into my account on itunes store, it says I have 0 computers authorized. How can I deauthorize other computers when they aren't even recognized on my current mac?

See this Apple KB article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1420

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