ITunes reporting wrong free space on iPhone 4S

On Friday, I signed up for iTunes Match.  Let it do it's thing, and on Saturday afternoon, it completed.  I went through and removed all the old m4p files I could, replaced with m4a, and downloaded 256k aac replacements for old files in my library for artists A-C last night.   That all went good on my computer.
However, when I went to sync my phone last night, my space available is being reported incorrectly by iTunes (10.51 on Win7).  It initially told me I was over usage, which was a lie.  When I started this, it was roughly 5.5Gb free or so (forget exact space at the moment).  When I went to sync, iTunes instantly jumped to over.  I manually removed a few playlists to bring the reporting under, but it still has the problem.
As of right now, iTunes is saying there is 1.32Gb free on the iPhone.  The phone itself is reporting 5.1Gb free, which is about what it should be. 
I switched my iPad over to using iTunes Match, and it's usage is the same (although I haven't synced it yet).  But I didn't want to do this on the phone until I resolved this reporting problem.  Things i've tried already:
1) Unchecking, then checking again the "Open iTunes when this iPhone is connected".  I read around these forums, and found from some people that helps.  It didn't for me.
2) Restore on the iPhone.  Didn't work.
3) Unchecking sync music, sync the phone to remove it all, then recheck, and resync to put the music back.  No difference.  Same misreported space.
4) Swearing at it. 
If anyone has any ideas, let me know.  Tkx.

Interesting.  I just now plugged the phone in again after ejecting it, and..
It initially showed the proper 5.1Gb free that the phone itself is reporting.  But about two seconds after that, it jumped up to the incorrect 1.32Gb free. 
The sync finished, and it went back down to the proper 5.1Gb free.  I have no bloody idea what the deal here is.  Something bizarre happened, and then it just as equally weirdly went away. 

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