Why does itunes match get stuck on the 2nd step and then cause itunes to crash?

hello. I have been having an odd and annoying problem with itunes match for the past few months. Everytime I launch itunes, match comes on and starts working but then crashes in the second step. It says that it is matching my songs with the songs in the itunes store and when it gets to about 4500 out of 4600, it stops and then a pop up comes up that says itunes has stop working and it needs to close. In addition, i just tried to add some new music to my library and it's cloud status is "waiting" and will not change. Oddly, A few of the songs did load (only 7 out of 48). I have tried restarting the computer and updating match in the itunes store. I even uninstalled itunes and redownloaded it. This is getting rather frustrating and help would be very much appreciated. Thanks

YES.
I posted a question about this in another thread and it got no responses.
It's not the internet connection.
I also have an iPhone 4. My Match library is quite large.
When it gets hung up like this, you can look at the download status in the iTunes Store app and it will show "Processing..." as the status on those stuck files. The others just sit and wait.
If you delete the stuck downloads, it won't successfully download those files (not for me at least) unless you restart your phone.
I don't have the answer, unfortunately.

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