Why are my matched songs greyed out and unavailable on my Mac?

OK, I've spent weeks matching and uploading songs to iTunes Match. All is now sorted, and the message in the Match window in iTunes says that all my songs are ready. Yet nearly every time I open iTunes all the Matched and Purchased songs that exist only in the cloud, and that I have not downloaded, are greyed out and I cannot play them.
Yet —
1. I can stream/download them them without a problem on my iPad and my iPhone, over the same internet connection and the same Wi-Fi network.
2. When I right-click on any of the greyed out songs in iTunes and select 'Show In iTunes Store' I'm taken to the song in the store, from where it plays fine.
So what is going on? Neither of the two above actions would work if I did not have an internet connection to iTunes in the cloud, so why won't the songs play in iTunes?

can somebody find an answer i deleted my songs from my ipod and they are all greyed out and i cant do anything.

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