Smart Playlists broken and totally unstable

I am not able to create a new smart playlist in iTunes 11. Is anyone else. Now I did subscribe (stupidly) to iTunes Match just after upgrading so that could be part of my problem, but I doubt it. Can anyone else create a new smart playlist in iTunes 11.

I see this same glitch
I tried creating a new smart playlist based on genre
and I can not get the Smart Playlist to populate-  zero, zip, nada, nothing.  Hmmm?
iTunes 11.0.2
So what I had to do, was delete the smart playlist.
Select all my music from the main library, then
create again my new smart playlist- (control click) to  edit rules.
Now it populated as expected.

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