ITunes match creates duplicates of all songs a computer upgrade

So I had a mac mini and over the summer I deleted all my music on my computer and redownloaded using itunes match to get the higher quality for a number of my older rips.
Fast forward to last month when I upgraded to a macbook air. Instead of downloading all my music from the cloud again, I just copied it over from my mac mini (running 10.6.8 server) to the new air (10.8) using the add to library option from within itunes.
Then I put in my apple id and itunes match info into iTunes and it did it's thing. The problem now is that I have two copies of every song show up in itunes, one on my computer and one in the cloud. Why didn't iTunes match just "match" the songs? Why is it giving me thousands of duplicates? Should I just delete all the ones from the cloud and run match again?
Thanks so much for your help with this, and sorry if this is an issue that has already been resolved, but I couldn't find anything.

Also, every five seconds iTunes Match decides to run through the three steps again, doesn't actually change anything, just goes rough the steps until complete. I click on artists or albums or anything else and then iTunes match pops up and runs through the three steps again.

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