ITunes Match albums view completely wrong (only on iPad)

Hi guys!
So for quite some time now I am having a big problem with my iTunes Match:
The albums view is completely f*cked up!
ALL albums I have show up under EVERY letter (meaning: To reach "B" after "A" I already scrolled through _all_ my albums)
Wrong songs show up in wrong albums
Number of songs per album is completely wrong
... and other things
This whole thing is really annoying as I have 3k songs in my iTunes Match lib.
Important:
Deactivating and then Re-activating iTunes Match does NOT help.
ONLY occurs on my iPad 4! On Mac & Win and also on my iPhone 5 it is fine.
I didn't have this problem on iOS 6.
On another note (just my 2 cents):
iTunes Match altogether is _very_ buggy and I am having a lot of small problems with it! :/ (one being Step 1 takes about 30mins each time on my Windows PC)
Can anybody help?!
Thanks! Cheers, P

I tried that as well!
Didn't change anything! :/
I also tried deleteing these files on my iPad:
MediaLibrary.sqllitedb
MediaLibrary.sqllitedb-shm
MediaLibrary.sqllitedb-wal
Then did a hard reboot! Also no change!
What is weird that when I swtich on 'order by artists' (or whatever this optin is called in English) the ordering of the Albums (by artists - obviously) works proplery and the right songs show up in the right albums.
Oh gosh I hate this iTunes Match thingy. Problems all over the place since release now.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5137
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430
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