Upgrade to Vista, lose your authorization for your purchased music

I upgraded from XP to Vista, and my iTunes is asking me to reauthorize my songs. The problem with this is that I've hit my five computer limit (I have three active computers, two that I forgot to deauthorized). It's not a new computer or a new install of iTunes, so I'm a little annoyed about the reauthorization.

I'm not using Vista, but I had the exact same problem on my windows XP install of 7.0.2 iTunes. It wasn't the only problem, but it was one of them.
It boiled down to the latest version of iTunes requiring the user account I was utilizing having full control[\b] privilages on the iTunes install directory. I don't know how you would do that in Vista, but if you grant that permission to the user account in question, you may very well not ever need to worry about disabling UAC, then reenabling it later.
FWIW, the other issue was an error -42018 when attempting to download new purchases. If you have that problem after your disable UAC/authorize/reenable, it may be that you have the same issue I did.
-Bill

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