Audiobook Not Remembering Playback Position

In iTunes 9.2, when marked as "Audiobook" itunes no longer remembers playback position. Both Playback position and skip when shuffling are grayed out, however they aren't checked. I put the files back in as "music: and manually checked "remember playback" and it worked fine.
Anyone else run into this? I have tried it on home and work computer.

Never mind, figured it out. You have to select all the files, cannot change it per individual file.

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I've seen this problem for years in the forums and have never submitted a comment thinking this would be resolved, but at this point I'm so frustrated, might as well resubmit this issue.
I listen to lots of audiobooks on my iPhone. Sometimes while listening to an audiobook, maybe I want to press the pause button in order to do something like talk to my wife for a couple minutes. When I press pause again, to resume my audiobook, the position is no longer in the same place, it may be an hour or so back from where I originally started. Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not. I'd say it's about 30/70 that is works. Now I don't listen to more than one audiobook at a time (or music), so I'm never swtiching between books, I'm just clicking pause.
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Yes, I've read another post that says, if I want to pause, I should press pause, then start another audiobook and let it play for 5 seconds, then it will remember the first pause.
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I wish it would just work but I found something.
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+Resolved by resetting. Never mind!+
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YamiPod: http://www.yamipod.com/
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ROFL I've named this thread "Shuffle Woes" in my favorites list. I seem to have fixed this strange and VERY elusive problem for now.
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SeaBeast wrote:
... on the device your are listenning the track.
Beast,
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Hi Alessanrdo,
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Actually the motive behing this option is to cover the "loop hole" of ARQ application. If you notice, we can "keep" adding the same role which is already assigned with different validity dates. ARQ does not control this!
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Description of problem:
1. Mark a song to 'Remember Playback Position'
2. Connect iphone and sync song.
3. Remove iphone from cable.
4. Play song.
5. While song is playing, connect cable.
6. Sync iphone.
7. Remove iphone from cable.
8. Play song.
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This worked in 2.0. I fail to understand how this was broken in 3.0 and was not fixed in 3.1. I have invested a lot of money in Apple products and this is just horrible.

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