Firewall keeps asking permission for iTunes

I have the following happening, everytime I start iTunes: My Firewall, the one in Mac OS 10.6.3 (turned on), keeps asking me if i want to give permission to iTunes to allow for incoming connections. I answer with yes, and iTunes appears in the Firewall preferences screen as being accepted. But every following time i open iTunes, I get the same question.
iTunes works fine, but this is just annoying. I tried restarting the Firewall, adding the programs manually, same result.
As I think the Firewall should be on, this will just keep happening and in time will really start to annoy me.
Does anyone have this same problem, and more importantly,... does anyone have a solution??
Kind regards, Peter

I have had the same problem, and in my estimation, it started with the iTunes update that included Ping. I have Ping turned off, and I get the same question everytime I launch iTunes. Quite annoying! I too have my firewall enabled and need it on at all times as I travel regularly. I have tried disabling the 'look for iPhone/iPad remotes' in the devices area of iTunes preferences, but that did not solve the problem for me. Coincidentally, my Airtunes setup was working fine (iPhone as Remote) until recently. A related problem?
My next approach will be to reinstall the software. However, the MBP is going in for service today anyway, so will wait until it's returned. Other solutions welcome! Strange that it's happening for some folks but not many. Or at least not many that are reading/posting here.

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