Ut oh i activated my computer too many times

hey my computer is like something i expirement with so it crashes a lot. i found that every time it crasher i must reinstall windows.(DUH) so whenever i want to listen to ythe music i bought i must reactivate the computer.
this time was my sixth activation and i cant activate it because you can only activate 5 computers.
it says to deactivate one but i cant because.. of course i no longer have access to that windows xp partition because i erased it.
so now i'm stuck with no store bought items is there any way that i can deactivate a computer without being on it?
Thanks a lot

See this -> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93014

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