Itunes playlistless music won't go away

Hello,
Recently I switched the itunes I used to sync from Windows (Bootcamp) to OSX. I noticed in my library there was two of each song on my iphone (and my wife's ipod) So, I deleted all the music (by syncing no playlists) and looked at my phone and saw something peculiar: no playlists were on the phone but my entire music library was still there!
I can play the songs and they are taking up space on the iphone. I tried re-syncing with the old iTunes on Windows with no playlists and even though I pressed "erase and sync," the songs are still there.
So, basically there are songs on my iphone with no playlist that won't go away.
Note: I AM able to delete them manually by swiping the song and pressing delete, but I have 400+ songs! Not to mention three devices (iPhone, iPod, and iPad).
I was not able to find anyone with this problem on google. It's difficult to phrase this problem well.
Anyone else experienced this?
Thank you.

An older post said to login to your account within itunes; go to account information; then disable icloud and ping. Since I'm also on 10.6.8 there is no "disable iCloud" option. So this is what I did (and it worked) - from the Account page within iTunes Store (must be logged in):
1. Ping was already disabled/off
2. In the iTunes match section, I clicked "Learn More" then clicked "No thanks". Effectively turning off Match (it gets removed from the sidebar).
3. Under "Settings" I turned off "Recommendations and Ping Postings".
I don't know which step - #2 or #3 actually made that login prompt no longer appear, but it doesn't so I'm happy.
Also, I had already disabled "Download updates automatically" in system preferences (and that didn't fix the iTunes problem). Note that I had that disabled that before I updated to 10.6.8 and the 10.6.8 re-enabled it. Not related, just mentioning in case that box needs to be unchecked too.
Other things you can try are in this Reset Warnings tip in this iTunes Windows thread (I didn't try it since the above worked for me):
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