Match songs appear with wrong information; album art

Two days ago I paid for iTunes match, and uploaded everything from my Laptop library (it has about 98% of my songs available). Today, when go into iTunes on my workstation at work, not only does the song information not match the song, but the album cover art does. In other words, if I want "In The End" by Linkin Park, and I click it, it shows a picture of a Kiss album and plays "Love Gun." Any ideas on how to remedy this?

Hi, welcome to Apple Discussions.
See http://samsoft.org.uk/iTunes/grouping.asp#section8
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