ITunes Match sorts artists wrongly on iPhone

Okay, I'm not sure what's going on with iTunes Match, but it definetely isn't working as expected...
I enabled it four days ago, and after re-organizing my computer several times (missing artwork) I now have everything set up correctly. I updated Match, and checked my iPhone...
There are two major problems here when I click on the artist view:
1) Some artists are duplicate. When I click neither of them, I'm taken to a list of their albums, but no matter which one I tap on, the list is the same (what I mean is that it's not that albums are split between the duplicates, it's just the same albums, same songs).
and...
2) (This one really frustrates me) As we all know, artists are sorted alphabetically. Well, everything goes fine until the letter "i", because from then on, all the way down to past the "z" and "#", the first artist of each group is wrong. For instance, letter i's last artist should be "Iron and Wine", but instead, "Iron and Wine" is not listed as the last artist under letter "i", but as the first artist under letter J! Same happens with EVERY letter: last artist from previous letter shows up as the first one in the next letter's group.
Coincidentally, Hans Zimmer is one of the duplicate artists. And, yes, it starts with H -same letter my artists' sorting order starts getting all messed up. I suppose it's got something to do with that.
Anyone else experiencing this? I tried turning Match off/on from my iPhone, turned the iPhone itself off, and quit the music app, but nothing changes.
On a side note, I tried to play a song from iCloud (not stored on my iPhone), and it played well. However, before I finished playing it I just stopped the download because I didn't really want it in my device -now it's stuck with the little "stop" icon that shows up when you're downloading, and I can't even listen to it when I tap it: it gest skipped.
I tried quitting the music app several times; even turned off the phone, but to no avail.
I really hope Apple fixes this ASAP. This reminds me of the MobileMe sync problems...

I'm afraid no solution to this specific problem has been discussed here before. I've searched Google and the boards several times before creating this topic but I found nothing. If I missed it then I'd be truly grateful if you could point one out to me.
Thanks.

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