Deleted songs being recopied - how to delete for good?

Since signing up for iTunes Match, I have a problem with music being copied to my 'main' Mac without being asked.
Scenario is that I bought a load of songs on his MacBook so that my partner could listen to them separately. I don't want them in my main collection. After I bought them, my iMac started downloading the songs. I let them complete, and then deleted them, but didn't delete them from iCloud. That way, I thought, my partner can have them on his iPhone but I don't have to have them taking up space on my main machine.
Whenever I delete them, within the next 24 hours they get downloaded again - the status bar on iTunes says "Copying". I delete them from the library, making sure not to delete them from iCloud, and the next day... they are back again.
On my iMac I have Automatic Downloads turned off for all content, and no tick next to "Always check for available downloads." I don't have enough room on my iMac for all my content, so I would have thought this was ideal for iCloud - leave the songs in the cloud to get downloaded onto devices where they're wanted and don't have them taking up space where they're not wanted. I just wish they would go away...

This sounds like something having to do with Home Sharing rather than iTunes Match. Nothing will be downloaded from the cloud unless you specifically click the button.
There is a setting in the Home Sharing settings of iTunes that will copy music from one computer to another when ever iTunes is opened on both computers at the same time. I don't have multiple computers so I don't remember exactly where that setting is, but this KB article should be helpful <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3819>. If the page doesn't load the first time just reload it.

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