24 bit songs ineligible for iTunes Match?

I just got the reissue of The Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie from their website - 24-bit digital download. iTunes is saying all the songs are ineleigible. Is this because of the 24-bit encoding?
What's strange is that I have (so far) purchased one other 24-bit digital download, 2nd Law by the Muse. When I imported these songs into iTunes, I had no issues uploading/matching them with iTunes Match.
The only obvious diffence between the albums is I imported 2nd Law under iTunes 10, and MCIS under iTunes 11.
Is there a workaround? I don't want to have to convert my songs to a lower quality format, especially considering what I paid for them...
Any comments are appreciated...

What's strange is that I have (so far) purchased one other 24-bit digital download, 2nd Law by the Muse. When I imported these songs into iTunes, I had no issues uploading/matching them with iTunes Match.
Tridentine,
Are you sure you had "no issues"? If iTunes Match was working as specified, one of two things would have happened.
If it could match the track, the one in the cloud would be the store copy in AAC/256 format.
If it could not match, it would use your copy, but first transcode it to AAC/256. (See details in this doc: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4914 )
Either way, you lost the benefit of the 24-bit hi-def audio.

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