ITunes Match won't recognize albums bought in another country as purchased

Hi all,
momentarely I'm quite dissapoibted with iTunes match.
I have a library with 26k titles - over 2'700 bought in iTunes, the rest is my digitalized CD-Library or bough via amazon.
in 2010 I moved from germany to switzerland and changed the country in iTunes - the ID is the same.
Now it seems that all my purchases in the german iTunes store aren't recognized by match as purchase.
correct would it look like this:
     26'783  total
-       2'752   purchased in iTunes
=    24'031atch (clearly under the stupid 25k limit)
how iTunes calculates:
     26'783  total
-        702  recognized as purchase by iTunes-match
=   26'063  to match (over the stupid 25k limit)
I contacted iTunes-support.
I told them my suspicion that it may be related to the move, she said that it wouldn't matter only to correct this statement after a couple of weeks.
After a month she wrote me that this is a fact and is not be seen as a problem.
Pointing out that this is clearly not what was advertised, she answered me:
"I want to point out, that 25'000 songs are a fair amount and I suggest to renew your songs, and exchange older ones with new ones."
I find that answer for a represantive of af a music download store quite arrogant, and told her that I now would like to speak to her Teamleader, which she denied with the comment, that she is as high as it gets.
Has anyone else experienced something like this or an idea how to solve this?
cheers
Erik

There is no neat solution, this is how iTunes Match operates.
One work around would be to export on CD and re-import (for the purchases) and to re-rip for existing CDs - it will work but is time consuming.

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