Can I change 'remember playback position'?

I imported a CD and then I marked its tracks in iTunes as an audiobook (since it was an audiobook). Later I noticed that the "remember playback position" checkbox had been not only checked automatically -- I hadn't checked it -- but also grayed out / disabled. While it's true that usually I like my audiobook tracks to remember playback positions, sometimes I don't (some tracks in audiobooks are quite short, or I always want to start at the beginning of a track to keep the author's flow of thought). I don't remember noticing this on tracks I imported even last month.
Is this a recent change?
Is there a way to change a particular track so that it will always start at the beginning instead of in the middle?
Thanks!

Not from within the OS. I don't know if there is a third-party hack that will do that.

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