ITunes sync/icloud/match/storage problems...

Howdy!
There seems to be quite a few topics out there similiar to mine, but I still need help.
I'm pretty confused as it looks like I've lost the grasp of syncing between my iphone 4 and macbook, so bear with me please...
I need to clear space on my 8gb Iphone 4, and iTunes is claiming that a significant portion of space  is taken by "audio".  This is strange, because there are no podcasts on it, and I haven't put that much music on there intentionally.
When I go to the macbook's iTunes,  DEVICES>IPHONE>SUMMARY...  there is no option to manually manage music, only an option to manage videos.
When I go to DEVICES>IPHONE>MUSIC... all it says is "ITUNES MATCH IS ON" with no options or controls on the syncing of the phone's music. 
How do I delete music so there's more room on the phone?  I went through most of the songs on the phone and deleted quite a few, but it still says there's over 3 gb's, which seems impossible.  Most of the remaining songs have the Cloud icon next to them, leading me to believe they're not physically there. 
It just seems like there's definitely something I'm missing.  So how did any music get there at all?  How do I control playlists,etc?  Is syncing just filling up empty space on the phone with random music?
Not to mention the mysterious "OTHER" that's taking up almost 1 GB of data on the phone...

One thing you could do is create a playlist with just 'x' amount of songs in it and then only sync that playlist to your phone. You could also have iTunes create a 128 kbps versions of the songs to have on your phone, which will allow you to add twice as many songs in the same amount of space or give you that much more free space with the same amount of songs.
I think you may have to go to the 'Music' tab to manage how music is controled on the phone (not sure as I'm not at a computer with iTunes).
I often wondered what the 'Other' was. Probably the OS.
I have a question for you. When you turned on iTunes Match on your iPhone, what happened? The bottom line for me is the same as you. I have much more music in iTunes than I can fit on my iPhone. I keep a few hundred songs on my phone and thats the way I want to keep it. If I turn on iTunes Match on my iPhone I get a warning "iTunes Match will replace the music library on this device" It doesn't say what it will replace it with. Will it try to add all 3,000 songs from iTunes? Will it just replace the songs currently on my iPhone with the iTunes match versions?

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