Most of my library is being deleted of my iPhone 6 and iTunes no longer downloads purchases unless I select them manually from the cloud??

I have recently purchased an iPhone 6 64GB and upgraded to Yosemite on my old MBA. Two main issues.
1. iTunes does not automatically download purchases from the store, if I go store -> check for available downloads it tells me that I have no available downloads, yet I have about 10 albums and 10 films and countless TV series in the cloud. I can select to download these manually, but why does the check for available downloads not work?
2. Most annoyingly my iPhone 6 keeps losing 90% of my music library. Previously I have been using an old iPhone 4s and used the iTunes Match service. I moved to China, music streaming is no longer an option due to terrible internet connections, blocked internet access etc etc, so initially I tried to download my music collection over wifi - took a long time, got there in the end. Then most of it disappeared, so I turned off iTunes Match on my MBA and iPhone and took to syncing old school via a cable, the library copied across (accept the music that iTunes had decided not to downloaded....) and all was good with the world again. Then this morning I went to access my library I had gone from 5000+ songs to 500 songs, my iPhone showed 50gb of free space. The only change over the weekend was that I turned on iTunes match on my Apple TV (which is kinda useless other than airplay with all internet issues here but thats a whole different story), but this shouldn't have affected my iPhone as match was turned off on it... plus I am sure iTunes Match shouldn't just delete my library....
Any thoughts?!

Just an update, following last nights USB sync all music shows as In the library on my iPhone, however only the same 500 or so songs are playable, the rest go from appearing to be in the library to going into the cloud and starting to download when manually selected. If on shuffle the music skips over them. The iPhone  memory usage shows only about 10gb used most of which is for the iOS/apps, so once again my music library is not on my iPhone. Apple have managed to take a great product and turn it into a steaming pile of turd.

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