HT204406 iTunes Match Says I'm over 25000 Songs (But I'm NOT!)

I'm having a pretty large and frustrating problem with iTunes Match over these past couple days. I recently did a bunch of replacing of lower res MP3s with Apple Lossless versions of said songs. All of the songs I've upgraded were in the cloud and I both deleted them from my iMac, and checked the box to delete them from the cloud before importing the AL versions and (expecting) them to be easily brought into the cloud in turn.
But something's wrong. My main machine only lists 24812 songs... but I get that **** message telling me I'm over 25000. I've been over 25000 before, and know what it's like to have to cut music out of my library to bring things back down to size. But this is NOT what's happening now.
Further, I'm able to check my Match songs on another Mac linked to this account. That computer has nothing on the physical hard drive, and indicates only 24402 songs in the cloud.
So now what? This service is beyond frustrating with the 25000 song limit as it is... but it's particularly galling to not be at that point, yet told I am while no clear way of resolving the problem is presented.
I've tried signing out, signing back in... restarting everything... signing out of Genius and back in... out of Match and back in... it feels hopeless.
Anyone have any ideas? I really need to fix this ASAP.
Much appreciated!

In case helpful, I just had exactly the same problem. I tracked down the cause for me, which was as follows:
I turned off iTunes Match
I then imported some CDs.
This would have put me over 25000 songs so I proceeded to delete some other CDs in my library
I then turned on iTunes Match (I should have done so before step 20.
This now meant I had say 24500 + 600 songs - 700 different songs - Match saw this as 24500 + 600 with 700 songs in the Cloud too (I hadn't deleted them from Match yet). So I was now over 25000 songs
Hopefully that makes sense.
My solution has been to delete the newly uploaded songs, turn on iTunes Match, delete the 700 songs from both my Match and local accounts I no longer wanted, re-add the 600 new songs. So I will end up at 24400 rather than 24500 songs.
Hopefully this may help you.

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