How to "undownload" iTunes match songs?

Hi everyone,
Have a question. I have a music library of about 15,000 songs between two computers. I hooked up both to my iTunes match and then connected my iPhone and iPad to my iTunes match account. Both the iphone and ipad have small amounts of memory so I am thrilled to have full access to my 15K music library which never would have fit before.
I actually removed all music from my iPhone completely and stream most songs from iCloud.
Over time though, if I am going somewhere without WiFi and want to listen to an able that I don't want to stream over 3G I will download that album to my iPhone or iPad. It's great to have these songs on my iPhone for a few weeks, but my iPhone is starting to fill up again with downloaded songs.
What I want to know how to do is how to "UNDOWNLOAD" these songs - aka, just stream them again from the cloud like I did before I decided to download that album, so I have room to download some other songs but still have access to the full libary. The iPhone itself doesn't seem to have a function to reverse the downloading process or even to delete them, and when I go to my iTunes library it doesn't give me the chance to edit what songs are physically synced because it says "iTunes match is on" with no further options.
Any help to manage this so I can download these songs when I need them, but stream them from iCloud at a later date when I'm listening less frequently in order to NOT fill my iPhone would be much appreciated.

I have teh same issue as Matt...
in order to do that delete (=undownload) in iOS 6 I had to set the setting of ItunesMatch to OFF. then I "deleted" the song I wanted to "undownload" , switched itunes match back ON and ...all other downloads were gone too (I guess coz I had switched off teh itunes Match function and it reset all to 0).
I had to redownload ALL my songs that I wanted prortable.
Or did I do something wrong?
Sandra

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Lisa here, from iTunes Store Support. I understand that you would like to cancel your iTunes Match subscription. I am sure you are eager to have this issue resolved and I would be happy to assist you today!
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Other issues: I believe the "exclusive" Cloud Playtlist logic still stands - iTunes protests if you add a non-Matched song to a Playlist (as it assumes you want all Playlists to be cloudy). Also, the APLCARE person and I could not figure out what "Removed" (under Cloud Status) means despite looking up several explanations on the Web. And, we found songs that were only in the cloud that should have also been on my local drive as I never deleted them. That said, it is also a pain to fully delete a song (local + the cloud). Plus, the logic in the Purchased section around what constitutes "Not On Computer" did not hold up. They have lots of logical challenges with thier workflow.
Regardingyour suggestion, there is no way to "not use" Match. Only when one is disconnected from the iTunes store does Match seem to go away completely.The only thing you can turn off is the song syncing/matching/uploading. This amounts only to turning off a sub-process not the service.
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