I ran into a similar problem when I installed a new HDD and updated my PowerBook to OS X 10.4. I had to re-authorize it for iTunes, and in effect lost one authorization.
Once you have used all your authorizations, a button labeled "deauthorize all" will come up in your account information screen. This will deauthorize all computers associated with your iTunes account, including those you no longer have access to, or those authorizations that were lost due to servicing or an upgrade. You can then authorize up to five computers again. Apple will let you do this only once a year, however.
Somewhere on the iTunes web site it tells you to make sure to deauthorize your computer before bringing it in for service. Unfortunately this is not intuitively obvious until after the fact.
Hope this helps.
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Bill:
Each time she has had her iBook repaired, iTunes has required her to re-authorize her libarary - on the SAME iBook that she has always had. She has never used her music on any iBook (or any other machine, for that matter) yet has managed to go through two additional authorizations.
Call me crazy, but this is the same exact machine so she should still be on authorization #1. Let's say she has another repair (-1 authorization), then decides to upgrade to a MacBook Pro (-1 authorization), which then needs a repair (-1 auth... iSCREWED!).
Here is a card-carrying member of the legal music download community who is STILL getting the short end of the DRM stick. So, damned if you do, damned if you don't. At least she isn't getting sued by the RIAA.
--- yes, also see Calacanis's comment that if you buy a song from iTunes, you have more restrictions than you'd have if you ripped it from a CD

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