Why doesn't iTunes offer me a chance to upgrade an Album?

I have a protected/DRM'ed AAC album (a couple actually) that I bought from the iTunes store, but I have never been offered an upgrade to iTunes+, even though iTunes+ is available? Is there something that I can do to initiated an upgrade if the album doesn't show in Upgrade option?

I have had this problem too, with 'Queen - The Platinum Album' and a disc of violin concertos with Nikolai Znaider as soloist. Seemingly these albums are no longer available in the iTunes store, at least in Germany (the Queen album may still be available in the USA).
I was (relatively) happy to pay for the iTunes+ version as I wanted now to use my iTunes library also with a Sonos multi-room audio system and this does not play DRM protected music. However, it seems that this option is not available.
I also wonder what happens if I lose the original files for the albums and need to replace them. Seems to me that inability to recover purchased music rather invalidates the whole iTunes Store concept. I'll stick to CDs.

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hmacross: I have checked for duplicates, and there were some there. This was because when I installed iTunes, it insisted on scanning my entire hard disk and adding every audio file it could find, even though I didn't want it to. I only wanted it to add ones in my Music folder. I had to do a fair amount of work to clean this up! Anyway, I just checked again, and there aren't any duplicates in my iTunes library.
Chris: If I look in my iTunes library, and show all the audio files as a big list, at the bottom it gives me the total number of files, and the total play length. If I look at the iPod, I see similar numbers.
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