I am so confused! Won't delete!

This is driving me insane.
Ok. At this point I have never used iTunes match.
So I backup my itunes library to an external drive and unplug it..
I then format my mac drive and install Mavericks...
I start up itunes and decide to subscribe to itunes match.. So my songs start appearing!?? ***? Where are these songs coming from? Could they be my itunes purhcases only maybe?? My main itunes library consists of both itunes purchases and also my own ripped CDs.
So then I delete all the songs and 'Also delete from icloud' and they dissapear from devices.. But then when I enable itunes match they appear agai! But I just deleted them! Then when I go to delete a second time this time it says 'This will hide your purchases from the cloud'.
When I go to delete the first time it says 'delete' and then the second time it says 'hide'.
I'm wanting to restore my original itunes library to my drive and THEN enable itunes match so that it uploads my ripped non purchased music. I feel I first need itunes to be clean and to have no music in it from the cloud am I right?
Or is it maybe just maybe showing me my purchases but that really my itunes match in the cloudis really empty?? The fact that I can see my purchases is making me think it's not empty.
-Frank

What you are seeing is your purchased music, which is available to download into iTunes via the iTunes in the Cloud service. Open iTunes Prefs > Store and unselect "show iTunes in the Cloud purchases."
Additionally, you can then quit iTunes and go to ~/Music/iTunes and delete what is there. You can then restore the iTunes folder from your backup and when you launch iTunes the library will be as it was.

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