Deleted iTunes Match Content Reappers

I am really at a loss of words at how poor the iTunes Match service has become with every "new and improved" version of iTunes. Right now, any songs that I have in iTunes Match cannot be changed or deleted. If I change the song/album Metadata in iTunes on my Mac, when iTunes Match automatically updates, all of the changes I made revert back to the original data. If I delete an album, it reappears during the next automatic iTunes Match update. I cannot figure this issue out for the life me. Apple Support is not much help either. I am aggravated and about to swear off all Apple products... Has anyone come across this issue and found a solution? It's been going on for the past 2-3 months. Thanks for the help.

Is this on an album you have purchased through iTunes or on an album you added yourself?
I think what jimzgoldfinch was stating is:
Add yourself: Normal right click delete and delete from cloud "SHOULD" work.
Purchase through iTunes: If you delete and delete from cloud, any time Apple re-syncs your "purchased" items it will dump it back in. So he was saying to go Previous Purchases in the iTunes Store where you should be able to remove it from there so it hides it from the re-sync list.
Basically if you bought it from Apple they think you always want it and will shove it back into your library.
Now if it's something you added yourself, you might make sure you haven't downloaded it to another device from the cloud, because it will see it on the other device and re-upload it as well. I've had this happen since I have both a MacBook and Windows iTunes. I downloaded it on both, deleted from MacBook and cloud, but then once my Windows machine updated it's iTunes Match...it added it back in. I had to remove it from both computers and iPhones to make sure it wasn't just sitting somewhere to be matched again.
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