Why cant I import my iTunes purchases into iMovie 6?

I am quite frustrated. Because of all the problems I was having with iMovie 4, I recently upgraded my system to OS Tiger 10.4, my iMovie to version 6 and all other iLife components to version 8 (my processor doesn't support iMovie 8).
Now I have a whole batch of new problems. Every time I try to import a song I purchased through iTunes into a movie, a dialgue box tells me my computer is not "authorized" to play that song and prompts me to authorize my computer. After going through the process of authorization I am told my computer is now authorized, but the same thing happens when I try to import music again. I've tried the authorization proccess many times now with no success, although iTunes tells me I have 2 computers authorized (where did it come up wioth a second computer?).
What is this "authorization" bull crap? I never had this problem with my old OS and iLife 4 components. Rather than getting easier to use, everything seems to be getting more difficult with upgrades.
At "wits" end,
Richard Witt

The common is (apparently, with several hundreds of posts) extremely common. It seems to be a bug with iTunes. The only workaround is burning all of the individual songs to a CD, reimporting them to iTunes, saving them as AIFF and reimporting them into the iMovie timeline. All kinds of other things have been tried to no avail -- see the several other threads on this topic.

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