ITunes Match Appears To Have 'Broken' A Song

I haven't seen anything like this particular issue in the iTunes Match–Discussions I scanned, so here goes...
Recently I have been playing with iTunes Match, and it's been working quite well.  The best way I learn is to actively engage with something, so I proceeded to replace my songs with low bit rates with higher bit rate versions from iTunes Match.
So, 6000 songs–give or take–over a two day period the process finished, and I am very satisfied with the results.
Recently I was listening to one of the 'matched' songs I downloaded, Stevie Nicks' "Doing The Best I Can (Escape From Berlin)" from her The Other Side Of The Mirror album, when I noticed breaks in the song.
I was at the gym at the time, so I assumed that the problem was with my headphones, so I waited till I got home to listen to the track on my computer (the song, before iTunes Match, was intact).
When I got home I played the song, and noticed breaks at 2:02, 3.28, and 4.30 (when I write 'breaks" I mean there's a second or so of empty space from one part of the song and the next).
This is really weird, because I know for a fact that the version I had orignally–before using iTunes Match–was pristine, which leads me to believe that the song residing on iTunes Match server(s) is broken.
I have a copy of this album on CD, so I am going to do an experiment that will prove it definitively:  I am going to delete the version I downloaded from iTunes Match and replaced it with a version from the CD.  Play it, to confirm that it's intact, then download it again from iTunes Match.
If the CD version is intact, it means there was  iTunes Match version is broken; which means i'll followup with Apple because I'd hate to think that anymore of my songs had this problem (though as I said, I have not seen this with any other songs).

Hi,
It would seem that the track that Apple is providing is corrupt. Not a lot you can do other that report problem to Apple. It will be easy for you to restore the original from the CD to play on your computer or sync manually to iOS devices (match needs to be off to transfer track).
Jim

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