After turning on iCloud/iTunes match, my playlist was duplicated 2000 times

Today I created a playlist on my iPhone 4 called "xmas." Now a few hours later this playlist has been duplicated more than 2,000 times -- it appears that way on my mac Mini, iPhone and iPad. Anyone else have this problem or know how to fix it?

Ok, i seem to have maybe fixed it after several hours of deleting the same playlist over and over again.  I will try to explain what i did..
1.  Turned off Match on iPhone and iPad
2.  Deleted 1000s of the Playlist in iTunes, but left one!
3.  Put 2 songs in the 1 remaining problem playlist in iTunes on my Mac
(the 2 songs i chose were songs that were ON my iPhone already)
4.  in iTunes I chose "Update iTunes Match" in the "Store" menu.
(let it finish, shouldnt take long)
5.  Restart iTunes.
6.  Turned on Match on iPhone
7.  Created a playlist on iPhone with 1 song in it
(before it had a chance to populate any playlists from iCloud/Match)
8.  Cold restarted iPhone
(Home and Lock button restart)
9.  Opened the Music app on iPhone and waited for the playlists to populate.
I am not sure how many of those steps are necessary, but it worked for me!  Well, on my iphone at least.  I am afraid to turn Match on for my iPad.  I will try that later.
Other notes:  The single song playlist i created prior to Match populating the iPhone vanished.  Also, i still seem to be having trouble with syncing my devices.  It just sits at "Waiting for sync to start" and fails eventually.
Hope this helps somebody!!

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