How to delete and start again?

I've finished ripping my collection of 480+ CDs but I really think a big mistake I made was signing-up to Match before I'd finished. I've got various minor problems (such as mismatched art which won't synchronize) and some bigger problems (such as songs which just won't match nor upload) and I think the best thing is just clear everything from the iCloud and start again.
So...how do you do this?
My saviour might be my old Windows XP laptop.  It's running iTunes 11 but, unlike my Mac, it only sees my iCloud, ie there are no songs/albums on the PC, it streams everything. If I delete all the albums using that PC, will it essentially clear everything from my iCloud so I can start with Match afresh?
There needs to be a way to wipe the slate clean, surely?

Not sure Michael I think I might have cracked it, unless someone's got as far as I have and it turns out to be a red herring
I did as I said in the last paragraph, ie I turned off iTunes Match on my Mac and my iPhone, logged into the PC which only streams via Match and deleted all the items (which of course said 'hide', not 'delete').  Back on my Mac, I logged out/in to iTunes, then turned on iTunes Match.  Looking at the 'Songs' view, the iCloud Status said 'Removed' on everything, which looked good to me!
I went to 'Albums' view, hit Cmd + A, right-clicked a random album and selected "Add to iCloud". It now really does seem to be starting all over again with the scan/match/upload, so far having taken about 20 mins on Step 1 and it's about a third across, which is what I would expect if it was doing a proper full scan and not an incremental update. Going back to 'Songs' view now shows the iCould status on all items as 'Waiting'.
I will keep this thread posted with the outcome.

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