Step 3 will take about two weeks...

This foolish old man thought he had better at least try this thing out and now I'm wondering if this was a mistake or not.
I have about 15,000 songs in my library (not a lot compared to some of you, but all the artists I like are dead and not creating more music :>).  Steps 1 and 2 finished, well, not exactly quickly but at least reasonably, taking a few hours.  Now we're at step 3, with 8376 items to be uploaded.  It started last night around 8:30pm on my rather high speed (about second tier of our service) internet and this morning it was at 5202.  So it took about 10 hours to upload 5,000 songs -- not great but not horrible, either.
Since 6:30am it has done around 200 more songs in those eight hours.  If I extrapolate that I find it will be done sometime before Christmas, assuming we don't experience one of our typical Florida power outages one of these weeks.  Is anyone else having this kind of issue?  I don't mind waiting another day (or five) but if it slows down exponentially it will never finish, like one of those dreams where you are running towards the door in the distance.
It does have the "Stop" button but there is no information on what happens if I push it.  I would *assume* that if something happens at this point and I restart Match it will simply try and upload the remaining songs (because it would have to do something like this if I add more songs to the library) but I'm rather loathe to try (would hate for it to start all over again).  Anyone else have this situation?  Or anyone else at least try stopping the process and then starting over again?
Overall my impression is rather poor so far...(LOL)

I've decided I'm giving up on this thing -- I've requested a refund.
It's a mess and after some consideration I'm not even sure it has any value (or very little).  Perhaps for folks who pirate a lot of music it would be good (since they could get better copies) but as nearly all my music is ripped at 320 I'm not really gaining any benefits.  Plus it has made the operations of iTunes on my PC (sorry, Mac folks) really really flaky and sluggish, even when it's not actively matching (I'm going to see if I can find an older copy of iTunes to reinstall).
I did try syncing a bit of music to my iPad and wasn't impressed -- even on fast wi-fi it was snail slow compared to USB transfer.  And much, MUCH more difficult to manage -- so I'm sure I'm missing the point somewhere.
Even if I don't get my money back I'm not using this thing until they get the bugs worked out (if ever).  Heck, I'm so old I may not be alive then.

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