Just had a nightmare morning
For some reason the new version of itunes ie 10.4.1.10 no longer offers the " back up to disc " option for your recent purchases.
So after 3 effin hours of researching their pathetic support sites , ensuring all my purchases have been copied to external drive and burning data discs for recent purchases from playlists I should be okay.
In addition all my backups seem to now be stored as real player files. Bizarre.
Had enough for one day though...................itune muppets