Unable to sync purchased songs after saving on storage device and reimaging

itunes will not let me sync all my purchased songs to my ipod since I saved the songs on a storage device and reimaged my computer. It says that I am "not authorized to play them on this computer" What the heck happened?! I have alot of purchased songs that I can not play now!

Choose Authorize Computer from the Store menu in iTunes and sync the iPod again.
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