Very strange stuff happening after disabling iTunes Match on iPhone - letter headings are wrong?

So I finally got fed up of Match today when my Music.app crashed and would not open at all.  I've had all the problems with artwork and playlists not showing up then appearing then disappearing again but persevered with it as I had paid and waited ages for upload but this was the final straw.  I switched Match off on iPhone and switched phone off and on.  Having done this it would open again but the letter headings for artist, song, album, etc are now wrong.  All the A artists are listed under K, B under L and so on until P artists which are listed under Z.  All artists, songs and albums with titles beginning Q onward are listed under 123.  I have attached a photo to show what I mean:
Has anyone else experienced this?  I will also add that even after switching off Match on iPhone, signing out of iTunes store and syncing iPhone with iTunes I still seem to have Match on and still am missing artwork which should be there.  The whole thing is a total shambles!

Hi, thanks for the answer.  I had already tried the above steps and it still did not fix the issue with the letters.  I also still had cloud symbols against some artists/albums although only songs on the phone appeared to actually show up.
I seem to now have resolved the issue by restoring the phone.  Certainly the heading letter issue is no more and the music seems to be back to the state it was in before I put on Match which is surprising but pleasing.  Best of all my artwork is working again.  Hallelujah!
I have never restored it before in 18 months and wasn't sure to what extent the phone is restored so I am happy to see everything seems to be back to normal even remembering passwords and so on.  Hopefully I will see some general improvements in performance of the phone and I will try Match again an a couple of months if/when I hear it has improved!

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