I have iTunes Match and I have three problems.

1) I am unable to add my "Holiday Music" playlist to my iPhone. I deleted the playlist "Christmas Music" and added "Holiday Music". I manually drag and dropped it to my iPhone on iTunes, but the content never showed up. I have tried just about everything I can think of. By the time I get my music on my iPhone, Christmas will be over. Very frustrated. Someone suggested I do it manually and I did. Still didn't work. When I went to play one of the Albums under "Albums", it asked me if I wanted to download the songs. I have already downloaded them once, why do I have to keep downloading them and will that cause me data usage with Verizon?
2) When I do play my music from my iPhone it jumps all over the place. First it plays song #4 then #11, then #24. Looks like I am only getting a fraction of my songs that I have in my iTunes.
3) My daughter and I share an account (of course, because I pay). I do get email notification when she buys something, but I don't see them under my "Purchased" playlist all the time. I do "Check for Available Downloads", but they don't always show up there. I have to make a copy of the iTunes email and then ask to download them again. If I didn't get that iTunes email, I wouldn't get to use those songs she buys with my money.
I'm thinking I don't like this "iTunes Match", so far. Way too hard to play my music. Thanks for whatever advice you can give me. THX, Lynn Z

Thanks Michael for your quick response. However, the following still exists:
1) I created a playlist in my iTunes entitled "Holiday Music". I have waited for days and it has never appeared on my iPhone. I even tried to sync it with USB and although it showed up under "On my Phone", it did not show up on my iPhone. I still can't find it anywhere on my iPhone.
2) Yes I hit "shuffle". However, after reading your response above, I tried not hitting shuffle and the bluetooth in my car when haywire. It scanned through my music and stopped whenever it wanted to. Plus, when I got in the car, I went to my playlist and checked "download all". I had to wait about 15 minutes before the playlist began playing. When it did, the first song played a couple of seconds and then waited a couple of seconds, and then did the same throughout the entire song. I figured it was because it was still downloading. I can't have this. It causes me anxiety because it bypasses songs I would like to hear.
3) As far as getting all the songs that my daughter and I buy, I will check out your recommendations above.
Thanks for your help on these issues. It is greatly appreciated. I will try anything to get this thing to work before
Christmas is over. THX, Lynn Z.

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