1st Gen iTouch loses my place in audiobooks after manual sync

i checked this forum for this question and found a few hits from a few months ago, but wanted to see if anyone has anything new to add.
i just updated my iTouch to 3.1.3 about a week ago from 2.? (whatever the last update was before the version 3 rollout). Now if i'm listening to an audiobook or podcast and i manually sync my iTouch, it loses my place and goes back to the beginning of the file. Before i updated, it worked great and always remembered my spot before and after sync'ing. i've tried going to Get Info -> Options on various podcasts and audiobooks to see if the "Remember playback position" option is checked; it is, and the option is greyed out.
Is anyone else (still) experiencing this problem? Is it fixable, and if so how?

If you are running 10.6 then this should fix it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3540
(Mac OS X v10.6 or later: iOS device not recognized in iTunes after restart)

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