Audio volume is always maximum at start

I upgraded to Mac OS X Lion from Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Before the upgrade when I reboot Mac OS X the audio volume is at the same level I left before.
Now when Mac OS X Lion starts, the audio level is always at maximum.
I think this is a little bug of the new OS.
Is there anyone with the same problem?
Does anyone have solved it?
Thanks you all.

Roberth wrote:Set the the desired audio volumes with alsamixer, run alsactl store, and start the alsa daemon and make sure it starts at every bootup.
SyXbiT wrote:
first let me say I've read other forum posts about the same thing, but none have helped.
All I have to do to get sound it move (up or down) my keyboard shortcut volume switch, and it magically turns on my sound. pretty annoying
I have alsa in my Daemons, and have run 'alsactl store' as root.
i even tried putting 'alsactl restore' in my rc.local, but nothing
groups:
tty lp mem wheel locate games dbus hal avahi network video audio optical storage power users gdm
any ideas?
he said he did that, it's something else...

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