HT204053 iTunes Match and other Apple ID alignment.

I have multiple Apple IDs: @mac.com, @me.com, @icloud.com and then I have my Apple Store account (which is different again).
To add further complexity my wife shares my iMac at home and she has an Apple Store account - fortunately nothing else.
Over the past year we have added to our Apple product family with a new iPad and an iPhone 5 so we have tried (and mostly managed) to seperate out the devices so that they are no longer "shared" - with the exceprion of seperate logins to the iMac.
My problem? Well somewhere along the line it seems that I might have logged into my wifes account on the iMac and used my Apple ID....
Not a problem I thought until I now find that my iTunes Match (which is only a 12 month service) is blocked for 3 of those months... Surely there should be some kind of reset on the account?
To add insult to injury I have just been advised by iTunes that they will renew my iTunes Match on 16th December - I still won't be able to use it on the iMac.
Is there anyway of getting this reset?

This is crazy. I just bought a book I cannot download ?????
I have also to wait 90 days?????
What's going wrong with Apple? This is not the experience I was used to.

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