Itunes Match Songs are all there but won't play

I've been using iTunes Match at work pretty regulary and I've notived that, seemingly randomly, I'll open iTunes and all my music will be there... however doub;e-clicking a song or or hitting PLAY does nothing. No error message; no nothing. Th ePLAY button is isn't ghosted or anything.
I've tried goifn Store . Update iTunes Match. That doesn't work. The only thing that seems to work is turning match completely off and then back on again.
Any idea why this would be happening?

Well the odd thing is that everything works perfectly fine most of the time. However, 10% of te time, Match enterest his stange state where songs won't play. Nothing changes in the iCloud Status field. You can even edit metadata like rating and song-names. Songs just won't play... nor will they download.
Based on the above, I don't think it's a corportate firewall issue (neither does my IT guy).

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4054
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