Why did the songs disappear iTunes?

ok, iTunes only allows 5 devices to be authorized per account. Recently I purchased and iPad and now between me and my wife we have 6 devices (2 pcs, 2 iPhones and 2 iPads). Most of our music is DRM free, i.e. we imported it from CDs or bought it off Amazon or some other site and imported it to iTunes. Some of the mp3s were bought from iTunes and in order to play the ones that are DRM protected (about 30 tracks) the device needs to be "authorized" through the iTunes store. Since we have six devices I decided to just let my wife take ownership of the old account and I would create a new account for myself and repurchase the 30 tracks that require "authorization" through the Apple store under my new Apple ID. Yesterday I went through and made a note ( "NOAUTH") in the Comment field of each of the songs that wouldn't play so I could purchase the songs. Today I went to make a list of the songs so I could start the purchase process and all the songs that I had marked as "NOAUTH" are gone!! Did iTunes delete them?

Nobody likes replying to posts like this - if you've searched all your hard drives and the music files are gone, then they're gone.
I assume you looked in the Recycle Bin and did a Win Explorer search instead of just looking in the known folders?
Who knows why this happened! Disasters like this usually convince folks to make regular backups.

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