My autofill button/option for filling available space with music is missing

Hey, all. I'm using the new iTunes 11. I back up to the cloud and I'm also using iMatch. At some point in the past I used the Autofill option to max out my storage space with music. Today I backed up my phone(a 4S) and restored it, then did a sync. Now I have no music and there is no autofill button at the bottom of the device screen. When I go to the Music tab, it says iMatch is on and songs can be downloaded and played via wifi. I tried shutting off iMatch, but that didn't seem to bring the option back to use Autofill. Any hints? Thanks.

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We should all sue Apple under UCC since the fitness for use clause is not met. Makes me really angry as it was fine in prior versions and now something that use to take a minutes has taken several hours with no solution in sight.
I am not upgrading to iPhoto 6. We're supposed to pay more on the hopes that maybe it'll be fixed? What a waste of money as the big feature in iPhoto was the make a reasonable sized QT movie to send some photos to friends. The computer isn't my life; I have no urge to spend hours reformatting songs, using iMovie, etc. I want to do the electronic equivalent of showing a stack of paper prints to a friend... you know, make my life easier, not harder

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