TRIED ALL FIXES: none work - sync session failed to start

Most of my attempted fixes use only my MacBook, OS X 10.7.3 (current Lion), iTunes is 10.5.3(3) 64-bit (current version). Phone is AT&T 4S, 16 GB v. 5.0.1 (9A406, current version).
I have used iCloud match on this phone, but now have it shut off. When I use iTunes to view the music on the iPhone, I see 1864 songs. iTunes sees this as 1864 items, 5 days, zero bytes). All are streams. All are greyed out. I can't delete them. I can't overwrite them becuase I can't sync.
This problem is on every computer I have tried. 4 different computers, all running either Lion, Snow Leopard, Windows 746x or Windows 8. I have tried the following:
Reset all settings on iPhone, then restored from iCloud
Remove all applications and settings, then restored phone from iCloud
removed iTunes, reinstalled (windows only)
Turned off iTunes match on Mac, Windows and iPhone
Removed all device support for iPhone, then re-installed it
Restarted iPhone, Mac and PC
Reinstalled Windows from scratch
Tried a Mac that had never synced this phone before.
Tried new installation of OSX (install Snow Leopard, upgrade to Lion)
Tried DIAGNOSTICS on Windows iTunes (all passed, including Device Connectivity, then it reported 'sync failed to start')
Tried one post that insisted my iCloud settings on my Mac and in the iPhone control panel needed to match, so I tried that too.
I have no other options. After over twenty-four hours involved in nuking and restoring iPhone from cloud, I don't see what there is left to try. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

btw, u could try the last post in this thread https://discussions.apple.com/message/17700783#17700783. for me it didn't work. see if it works for u.

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