Why is iTunes Match deleting playlists on my Mac?

A few months back, I turned off iTunes Match because iTunes Match checking for updates would bog down my system enough to make it annoying. Since I primarily use it as music backup and to stream to my Apple TV, I didn't miss it. However, I've since done a fresh install of Mountain Lion and with the Mac mini running fast and smooth again, I opted to turn iTunes Match back on.
iTunes Match ran through its motions and completed its process. Then, instead of the playlists that exisisted on my Mac mere seconds before, a list of playlists - which I assume were present a couple months ago - replaced them! I waited a day to see if the newer playlists would repopulate, but they never did. Fortunately I just went into Time Machine to restore the newer playlists so I didn't lose anything. Decided to try again and the same thing happened.
Anybody have any clue as to why this happened? I've read about issues on IOS devices and empty playlists in iTunes, but this is a first for me. I scoured the forums looking for a similar issue, but with no luck. Any help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

Hi,
someone seems to have installed Windows on your Mac using Apples BootCamp.
http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
To boot into that Windows you can use the Option/Alt-key at startup of your Mac and select WIndows to be booted as Operating System.
The reason why you cannot delete any files from the WIndows partition (HD) is because it uses the NTFS file system which OSX can read but not write to / delete without additional third-party helper tools.
If you don't want/need the WIndows on your Mac you can use the BootCamp Assistant (in the Applications/Utilities folder) to completely remove the WIndows partition and reassign the used diskspace back to your OSX.
Regards
Stefan

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