ITunes Match leaves ripped songs in multiple iCloud status states

Itunes Match seems to have made a complete mess of my Library.  I had to restart match several times, and in the end it looked like it was about to complete but when I came back to it,  I found that is had started the whole matching process again.  Now I see most of my songs ripped from CD duplicated in multiple iCloud states.  Most of my ripped songs appear duplicated as Uploaded and also as greyed out Waiting status.  Some appear duplicated as Uploaded and Matched.  Some of my music is duplicated as both in Matched state, one with the iCloud download option and other without.  As far as I can tell, nearly all my own ripped tracks appear as duplicates with different iClouds status in one form or another.  Purchased tracks from iTunes are fine with no duplicates.  What a mess!
I seems that during these multiple attempts to match iCloud was getting different results each time and I ended up with a hodgepodge of duplicates.  I have tried quitting iTunes and coming back in.  I have updated match, it went quickly and made no changes.  I have turned off match and then put it back on (prompted to add the computer) - no change.   How do I clean out this mess?
Note: I worked with a separate iTunes Library to to the match.  My main library contains songs in both AAC and Apple Lossless formats.  I first tried matching that library and realized that it was going to give me duplicates.  So I created a new empty Library and deleted my iCloud tracks to reset it.  Then I opened a custom library with just my AAC format files to do the match.  This seemed to work although as I noted it got stock a couple times and then seemed to repeat the match process in the end. Note these multiple libraries point to the same media files.  Fortunately it doesn't look like I have lost any original tracks, but the display is very messy with all the duplicates.
Are these iCloud states stored locally where I could delete a file and then reopen the library I wish to match and update the matches to refresh the iCloud status and hopefully clear out all the duplicate listings?  I am hoping I don't need to start over since this took two days to do.  But if I do, what must be done to start from a clean state.  In addition to clearing out iCloud via deleting from an empty library, are there other local files that need to be purged?

Don't feel bad -- I'm running iTM on Windows XP and it's clearly not listed as supported either.       Are some of those dups greyed out?  I've had that issue if I tried to match and then killed the process before it completed.  If so, you might need to clear all them out before you re-run.   In other words, if you create a new library and see a bunch of iCloud stuff when you enable iTM, you might want to go through and clean up iCloud before you attempt any more local matching on your end.
The only real problem I see with 10.5.8 (or XP for that matter) is that if you contact Apple directly, they might suggest upgrading as the first step since it's not listed as supported.   Unfortunately it is what it is and Apple, like any other large tech company has to set EOL dates for certain OS's.

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