Itunes forgets position

This started a week ago. Itunes forgets the position all the time. I listen to a lot of long MP3s and pretty much every time I pause an MP3, when i unpause it, it is like 20 minutes earlier than it was when I paused it. I have installed the newest version and rebooted and it is still happening. Anyone else seeing this?

xian2006 wrote:
Here's a wrinkle: I still have iTunes 9 (9.2 or whatever the latest version is), not iTunes 10, and I had a similar problem today. Could this be related?
Having listened to a bunch of podcasts on my iPhone, I synced with my iBook, which put those same podcasts back on to my iPhone, showing as either unplayed or partially-played, depending on their status the LAST time I synced, which was probably 3 or more days ago. No new podcasts were added.
All the posts on here seem to be from the last week, so I wonder if this problem has to do not with iTunes 10, but with the iOS firmware. I know there was a recent firmware update that I installed on my iPhone 3G.
Well I've not got any iOS devices, just an 80GB iPod classic and second gen-shuffle. Yet this issue arose for me after updating to iTunes 10 shrug

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