Automatic download for iTunes Match?

I just purchased iTunes Match, while I like the idea, in fact really love the the idea, that it indexes all of the music I got from my CDs and associating it with my Apple ID, I'm also quite disappointed by the technical side of it. I got a pretty bad impression of it when it tried to upload the songs that are not in iTunes stores to Apple's server, it just too absolutely ages and breaks off every once in a while so I had to restat the upload process many times to get all my songs uploaded. Then I realised that on my iPhone, the songs were not downloaded automatically and every time I play it I must stream it from the Internet, and for some reason it won't even let me stream when I'm on 3G (the song names simply grey out in my library). Is there a way so that my library is automatically downloaded to all of my devices? And when I add a new song not from the iTunes store can I set it so it automatically add that too on my iOS devices?
Another thing is that I have two Macs, my MacBook Pro and my iMac, my iTunes library on my MBP is my primary one and I want to mirror that on my iMac, however when I tried to turn on iTune Match a message popped up saying only one computer can be matched. Can I make it so that my library on the iMac is matched from my Macbook Pro?

You'd be better off asking in the dedicated iTunes Match forum: https://discussions.apple.com/community/itunes/itunes_match

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