Greyed Out Extra Music Files--Aggravating!

Okay. I have multiple iPods and one iPad. I am having an issue with duplicate greyed-out files showing in iTunes (11.1.3.8) on my computer (Windows 7 64 bit) whenever I connect the iPad (7.0.4) for syncing. I have looked through multiple other "greyed-out file" threads and none of them seem to exactly match this issue.
When I purchase music from iTunes, I immediately convert the files to MP3 format and delete the originals before syncing with devices. The iPad would always grab the original files before I could stop it and I would end up with duplicate files; this forced me to remove all of that artist's files from the iPad and then re-insert them after deleting the originals again. Today I figured out it was automatically downloading the files as soon as I purchased them (it was the "auto download files bought with other devices" setting).
But a new issue has now arisen. I have a small set of songs purchased last night/today that seem to be "stuck". As usual, I bought them from iTunes, then converted them to MP3, deleted the originals, and synced them to the iPad. Both the computer and the iPad now only show the MP3 versions (like I want them to). However, when I plug the iPad in to the computer for syncing, there are extra files shown when I click the "on this iPad" tab. All of them are duplicates of other MP3 files. They are greyed out, have no "kind" showing and have the little "wheel" on the left as if they are trying to sync. I can find no trace of the files on the computer or the iPad, both behave as if they don't exist. Yet I selected to manually manage the files and tried deleting them, and it showed that they were affecting the space available! I deleted them and then tried syncing again, and they all showed back up again! Arrgghh!!! It seems as though the computer believes the files are still there, yet they're not (and somehow they ARE affecting the iPad space). And this screen is the only place that displays them. Can anyone tell me how to get them purged from the computer so it will stop trying to sync them to the iPad?

I think I'm having the same issue and it only affects music purchased directly from iTunes. My iTunes music library on my computer shows one instance of each track and they're all synced to my iPad and iPhone (but may have originally been purchased and downloaded directly to iPad or iPhone). I have both set to convert tracks down to 128Kbps (in case this is affecting things). When I connect my iPad to iTunes and look at the music stored on the iPad I get a similar result to the screenshot above - greyed out songs and, in some cases, up to three 'versions' of the same track - but this is not always consistent even within a single album. The iPad itself only shows one instance of each track as does the computer's music library. I deleted one of the albums completely from my computer (and deleted from Trash) and then synced my iPad but the album was still on my iPad (although a couple of the tracks showed the iCloud icon). I switched off my Wi-Fi to ensure that the iPad had no connection to the internet and the tracks still played so they must be saved on my iPad somewhere even though, at that point, they weren't on my computer and I had just completed a sync.
I did notice when I looked at the bit rate and size information in iTunes (iPad Library) that where there were three instances of the same song there was a mixture of 128Kbps, 256Kbps and Stream.
I haven't managed to find any solution to this so far but thought I would add my experience in case anybody has figured this out?
Thanks,
Matt

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