ITunes and iTunes Match causing problems

I'm using the latest iTunes, 12 something or other, only iMac.
I have over 12,000 songs in my iTunes library.
The majority of them were ripped from my cd collection.
Only several hundred, @400, have been purchased.
When i bring up iTunes, i can/could see them all - no cloud icons.
All the songs are located on my local hard drive.
I'm trying to move them all onto my iPod but that isn't working - i'll worry about that issue after I get the below iTunes issue resolved.....hopefully.
In iTunes, with all my songs accurately displayed, I turned on iTunes match.
After a time delay and messages about info @ my iTunes library being sent to Apple, the UI display came back with a bunch of cloud icons located next to a majority of the songs. Some of the songs were the ones I purchased, some were not. Some of the songs were from the ripped CDs, some were not - I haven't been able to figure out what determined a cloud icon to be placed next to a song.
When i tried to drag-and-drop some of these songs onto my iPod - i got a message saying that none of the songs that have a cloud icon next to them can be copied onto my device, i have to download them first !?!?!?!?! Huh ? Wait a second, all of these songs already exist locally - i checked in Finder and they are all still located locally on my hard drive - why am i being told to download a song that already exists locally ?.
Then I thought I'll just go back to what iTunes was displaying before i turned on Match, i.e., my entire 12,000+ locally existing song library w/no cloud icons.
So I tried going to back to the original display where all of the songs were listed.
I turned off iTunes match and much to my surprise - several of the originally listed songs have disappeared and are no longer displayed in my iTunes song library ? And by several, i mean the majority.
So now, as far as iTunes is concerned, instead of having a 12,100+ song library, i've got several thousand less !?!?!?! Why ?
How can i get iTunes to forget all about its current settings and state of things, start from scratch, and go thru the entire current library of 12,100+ songs that I have on my local hard drive and rebuild its db to accurately represent all the songs I truly have ?
Thanks,
BobZ

One thing I would consider is getting an uninterruptible power supply. I had my iphoto and itunes libraries on an external drive for years. While I was in iphoto one night the power flickered off and on several times. My Powerbook continued to run off of it's battery, but the external went off and on. It damaged my photo library and I had to completely rebuild it. It was a lot of trouble. Not sure what would have happened if itunes would have been open.
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