ITunes removes all music from iPhone 4s

Then when I try to resync the still checked songs back to the iPhone, it quickly finishes the sync with no errors - but no songs are copied back to the iPhone. If I set iTunes to manually sync - same thing. No errors. The only way to get the songs to sync again is to do a complete restore of the iPhone (which I've now done twice in two weeks). I have iTunes Match setup but not on the phone as it is crippling slow and the volume of music (about 7800 songs) makes it impractical to download songs in the slow interface.
What is the problem?? Why is iTunes randomly dumping my phone's music!?
I sync my iPhone with my work computer (Windows 7 - iTunes 10.7.0.21).

I fixed this problem by dumping iTunes altogether and going with Amazon Cloud player app on the iPhone. Much better experience than iTunes and iTunes Match.

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