Why do iCloud songs not appear on all devices?

I have several devices using Match and most of my 5,000 songs appear to be "in the cloud" on most of my machines but on the machine that was used to upload the songs, only a few (less than 1,000) have any cloud designation at all.
Longer version:
Have an iPhone, iPad and two MacBooks. Three months ago, I subscribed to Match and spend quite a while getting most of my tunes into the cloud. For reasons I won't go into, I changed accounts on the MacBook that is actually connected to the hard drive where the tunes reside. After waiting three months to switch back, I now have all my machines on the same account but the one with the changed account only indicates that a few of my tunes are in the cloud. I have the cloud icon indicator turned on yet most of the tunes have no icon by them. (The same songs on the other machines have the "download from cloud" icon and they indicate that there are 5,000 tunes available through Match.
I have logged out and back in several times, rebooted and also used the "Update iTunes Match" several times.
Any suggestions?

I think that iTunes is getting confused along with you.
Here's what I would do:
Try to get back to having just one, empty iTunes library. You could do this by creating a new one from scratch, or by deleting all content from one of your existing ones (obviously keeping the files and not deleting from iCloud). I'd also turn iTunes match off for the moment.
Then plug in your HDD and add all the music to iTunes by using file / add to library and then selecting the location of your library.
Once you are happy that the music is all back in your library switch match back on. It will run through the match process again but shouldn't match or upload anything and you should be good to go.
I will just say though that I may have misinterpreted exactly what you are trying to do, and what has happened, so just give it some thought before going ahead, in case I've got it wrong.

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