You can always purchase a wishlist item by just looking it up from "scratch." Plus you can still view (and purchase) songs from your wishlist using an iPod or iPhone, if you own either of those. (This is an "iTunes for Windows" issue, only) The problem is if you cannot access your list AND you don't remember what you selected. And unfortunately I have found, after saving the same list - now over 400 songs - over several YEARS (with occasional songs being purchased, of course) that, even when Wishlist WORKS, I can never RELY on my wishlist "staying intact" so I save screen shots of my updates, periodically, to ensure I won't "forget" songs that INEVITABLY fall off my list. It is so ANNOYING when that happens! I am guessing the "unauthorized reductions" to my wishlist occur when Apple makes changes behind the scenes, i.e.: the same song is suddenly offered on a different album, so my original selection is no longer available. It's so sad that I have to, in essence, "keep my OWN copy" of my iTunes wishlist because the Apple feature is so "unreliable!" But if you remember a song you wanted, simply search it up and purchase it that way. I did that yesterday, AFTER cross-referencing it on my iPad to ensure I was purchasing the "correct" album version I originally wanted. Good Luck - hopefully they will address this soon!