ITunes Match and iOS 7.0.3 Upgrade - Syncing Issue

I subscribe to iTunes Match for my iPhone 4S. However, I still sync photos, videos, etc from my computer. During both the update to 7.0.3 and 7.0.2, my phone has taken an interminable amount of time to sync after upgrading the iOS. During the last upgrade, i left the phone to sync overnight and found that it had deleted all of the music that I had downloaded to my device - or at least sort of. It was showing these songs as not on the device, however they seemed to still be taking up drive space. Many albums I had downloaded were now showing each track duplicated - one iTunes match version with the cloud next to it, and one downloaded to the device. After trying to remedy the issue many different ways, I found that thing that worked was to erase and restore the phone from back-up, thereby deleting all the music on my device and requiring me to again download songs from the cloud. I just finally got my music collection in good working order again with most of the music I listen to most recently on my device - and now with this latest upgrade it appears I will have to start all over again.
Has anyone else been having this issue? Is this a known problem? Am I doing something wrong?

nope no errors. it goes through the whole syncing processing, saying it's backing up the iphone and what not, but nothing happens on the iphone. i'm thinking i should just restore my iphone, right?

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