Audiobooks & iTunes 9: Is anyone having luck playing them?

Since installing 9.0.1, audiobooks play as if I've got shuffle mode turned on. Of course, there is no option for doing that with audiobooks, so why won't they play in sequence?!
I've reported this as a bug to Apple, but I've seen only one other posting on this subject and it has just a few responses. I know a lot of people listen to audiobooks, so I'm wondering if I'm one of the "lucky" few who have this problem.
So, are your audiobooks, specifically those formatted in AAC with .m4b extensions (not Audible), working OK?

UPDATE: I'm using Doug Adams' excellent Join Together app as a workaround for the audiobooks shuffle problem.
The app joins the individual book files into a single chapterized file, so the shuffle problem doesn't apply. The major drawback is it takes 50 minutes to join 10 hours worth of audiobook together on my aging 2.7-GHz DP PowerMac.
On balance, even after Apple fixes the current problems with iTunes, I'll probably continue using Join Together, it's a lot more convenient than fussing with hundreds of short duration files.
The app is freeware, but I'm going make a donation after verifying it works on 10 books (5 books so far and no deal breakers!) Only problem so far is that, for some reason, even though I input the ID3 tag info before starting the combine process, I have to do it all over again after the file is imported into iTunes.

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