ITunes Match now stuck on Step 1 - won't move to step 2.

Hi
I turned on iTunes Match on Day One and it worked like a dream.
On Friday, I plugged in an older iPod which came back from repair - from the pre-Match days.
It moved a bit of "purchased" content from my iPod to the iMac's library.
It was at this point that iTunes Match started misbehaving.
It gets to the end of Step 1 and gets stuck or stalls.
Now iTunes Match is re-visable in the column on the left, the syncing wheel spins and the genius wheel spins.
I have checked the forums.... but none of the proposed soultions work.
For example:
Originally Posted by scfres46
Move the "SC Info" folder (found at /Users/Shared/SC Info) to the trash, restart OS X Lion and iTunes Match should work properly again. Hope this helps!"
from: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1276151
and
turn off iTunes match, enable genius, let it finish, then turn back on iTunes match"
from: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1227167
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Andrew

OK, I have now fixed this...
From:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16761482#16761482
I learned about:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1451
and deleting the "iTunes Library.itl" library file in my iTunes folder.
Export your playlists first then reimport them!
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