ITunes 7.7 always asks to acccept incoming connections

Question

Hey everyone,
I have noticed that as of installing iTunes 7.7 that every time I open iTunes it asks me if I want to accept or deny incoming connections from iTunes (as per my settings in the Firewall preferences). I somewhat expected this the first time I fired up 7.7 after updating, but even after clicking "Accept", it still asks me this every time. Most other programs that I accept are added to the list of allowed applications in the Firewall Preferences. Why is this? I have noticed that the Transmission bittorrent client sometimes acts like this as well, but not as consistently as iTunes 7.7 does.
Anyone else have this problem?

Answer 1

Well, I thought I had solved the problem with the reinstall of the OS, but the problem has come back. I've your tip, JohnTheMacGeek, and trashed the alf.plist file and restarted, but that has no effect. Doing this even multiple times, and going into Firewall prefs afterward and either manually putting the apps I want, like iTunes, or letting the Firewall ask to accept the incoming connections the first time. It still keeps asking to allow regardless. It seems to only occur with iTunes, but a couple of other apps have popped up a few times, but have since stopped I think. I'm on iTunes 7.7.1 at the moment.