ITunes Audiobooks icon keeps disappearing

I have successfully imported dozens of Audible Audiobooks to iTunes. But the Audiobooks icon/folder in the Library is not displayed when I launch iTunes.
To make it reappear, I redownload a book from Audible, import it to iTunes using the Audible Download Manager, and the Audiobooks icon magically reappears in iTunes.
As long as the Audiobooks icon is displayed, I can play and sync my Audible content.
The next time I launch iTunes, the Audiobooks is gone again and I have to repeat the process.
Please let me know what I have to do to make the Audiobooks icon be present every time I launch iTunes. It is a most irritating bug.

When I try to edit the preferences in iTunes to show Audiobooks, I get the following message:
"An error occurred while updating the default player for audio file types. You do not have enough access privileges for this operation."
In spite of the message, the Audiobooks folder displays, but it's not there again when I launch iTunes.
The message displays regardless of whether the "use iTunes as the default player for audio files" option is checked or not.
All I want is for the Audiobooks folder to stay. The default player settings do not matter to me at all.

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