Firewall always asks to allow the same incoming network connections

Question

I recently changed my firewall setting from "Allow all incoming connections" to "Set access for specific services and applications" in order to better protect my computer. After making this change, my computer will ask me to either allow or deny incoming network connections for any application that requests that type of connection. Once I make a decision to allow or deny access, my choice is saved in System Preferences>Security>Firewall. Thus, I do not have to keep making the decision each time access is requested - OSX remembers my decision.
Currently, in addition to the OSX services that I have turned on and are listed in the Firewall access screen - File Sharing, Remote Login & Screen Sharing; I have the following applications listed for allowing incoming connections: Adium, Skype, TiVoDesktop, BOINC, GrowlHelperApp & Cyberduck.
Unfortunately, for two programs - Adium and BOINC, the firewall setup asks me every time I boot, or start either application whether I want to allow incoming connections. When this request occurs, I click on the allow button. The first time I did that, an entry was made in the System Preferences>Security>Firewall settings page that shows the application and that I allowed incoming connections. But, I still get asked every time.
During troubleshooting, I discovered that if I disabled my Bonjour account in Adium, I stopped receiving the continuous requests for Adium. In fact, when I started Adium, with the Bonjour account disabled, I received no request. However, as soon as I enabled the Bonjour account in Adium, I immediately received the request. Interestingly, the request indicated Adium, not Bonjour as making the request. And, when I clicked allow, no new entry was added to the Firewall list for Bonjour (The Adium one was already there).
For BOINC, there is no setting related to Bonjour, so I am unable to make a clear connection there. However, even with no Projects attached to BOINC, I still get the incoming connections request every time I boot. So, the problem is related to the BOINC application itself, and not any particular project attached to it.
The evidence suggests that the problem is associated with the OSX firewall and Bonjour, not with Adium & BOINC. Any suggestions on how to resolve this problem would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Thank you for your suggestions. They were helpful. I went to System Preferences>Security>Firewall and removed all of the applications there, so that the only items left were the services I had turned on (File Sharing, Remote Login & Screen Sharing). I then restarted the computer.
After the restart, BOINC requested the incoming connection and I clicked allow. Adium did not ask, since I had my Bonjour account within Adium disabled. I then restarted the computer again. When it came up, BOINC did not display the request window for incoming connections. So, the problem was fixed for BOINC by following your recommendations. Unfortunately, this was not the case with Adium.
I next enabled the Bonjour account within Adium and I immediately received the request window for incoming connections. I clicked allow, and Adium.app then appeared in the System Preferences>Security>Firewall list indicating that it was allowing incoming connections. I restarted the computer and as soon as Adium restarted, the requested window returned. I immediately restarted the computer again, and got the same thing upon starting up. I then disabled the Bonjour account in Adium, restarted the computer and the request window did not come up. So, there appears to still be a problem when having an enabled Bonjour account within Adium.
Message was edited by: paddster7