ITunes overriding music syncing selections for iPhone

I have iTunes set up to Sync Selected playlists, then I have some of them checked. What is not checked in particular is my enormous Audiobooks folder, instead I have a separate playlist of books I'm currently listening to. For 2 months the syncing worked perfectly, and then about a week or so ago it suddenly started downloading most of my entire audiobooks library without any provocation - I've double checked my selections in the music tab and everything is the same as usual, Audiobooks is NOT checked, and under the Summary tab 'sync only checked songs and videos' is checked. Any idea what is happening?! Thanks

Thanks for answering, but maybe I wasn't clear in my request - I do NOT want my entire audiobooks folder downloaded and that appears to be what's happening (my itty bitty iPhone drive is now maxed with a bunch of stuff I didn't want on there).

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I have sought an answer to this for a long while with no success. So I have joined ASC to see if any of you folks may help
My Hardware:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386
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