Songs in iTunes Matched but Won't Play... Sort Of...

I signed up for iTunes Match because I wanted to move my library of songs off my computer to save space and I was intrigued by the idea of being able to sync with the library from my iPad or even when I'm overseas. Sometimes it works well enough that I'm happy, but most of the time it's a pain in my butt. The biggest problem I am having is a syncing problem that happens anytime I sign out of the iTunes store...
Even though my library says "matched" or "uploaded", if I have my iTunes set to "shuffle" it will constantly stop when it changes songs. It will say the song can't be located, even if it's status is "matched" or whatever. If I double click the song, it will tell me it cannot locate it, and then ask me if I would like to find the file. If I say yes it will bring up my computer's directory, but if I say no, it will play the song! As long as I have played that song once, it will no longer have any trouble finding that song. Sounds like an easy fix, except that I have over 5,000 songs and I don't have time to go in and double click each song and tell each error message NOT to locate the song. If iTunes can't locate a song, it doesn't just skip the song, the error message haults everything. I often work with music playing and I find myself spending more time trying to fix iTunes than working!
Today I logged out of iTunes Store to sign on to a second account (different country) and when that happened suddenly all the songs in my library needed to be re-added through the method mentioned above. I had finally gotten about 2,000 songs to read and now I have to do it all over again...
Songs purchased in the iTunes store do not have this problem. Yes, I have turned on iTunes Match.
Do I have to have songs on my hard drive for them to automatically play through iTunes Match? Because that sounds like it defeats the purpose a little...
Any info would be much appreciated. If I can't get this fixed, I doubt I'll be subscribing to iTunes Match again. Sounded like a great idea, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it just playing what I've matched or uploaded without me telling it to.

I moved all my music files to an external hard disk as a second backup. This was a year ago, so my memory is fuzzy, but I remember when I manually sent albums to iCloud to get matched I ended up with two copies of the songs, and I deleted the non-iCloud copies through iTunes. Not sure if that makes much sense, but basically it was half and half for deletion methods.
If I delete all the songs just through iTunes, will they show up again as their matched copies through iCloud if I turn off and on iTunes Match?

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