ITunes Won't Stop Shuffling!

I have the latest desktop version of iTunes (11.1.3 (8) ) and I'm running Mac OS X 10.8.5.  For the last couple of months (I can't remember which update), iTunes has been shuffling within albums any time I play music.  It's very frustrating.  I have shuffle turned off.  If I turn it on, I can shuffle within Artist, Playlist, etc. - as it is supposed to do.  However, I can't turn it off!  Does anyone have any suggestions?
(In the "Control" menu, it's off - it Reads "Turn On Shuffle")
(The little shuffle icon is grey, not blue)

I'm not sure regarding OSX 10.8 + as I still run production machines on 10.6.8 but, I still have the same itunes version apperantly as you do through updates.
I noticed the same problems with shuffle not turning off but, after some thought I realized I had my mobile phone plugged in recharging on the computer. I also had shuffle turnrd off in iTunes and songs continued to shuffle! SMH
I did some quick testing and found:
1: When I ahut down iTunes, unpluged the mobile phone (running IOS btw), restarted iTunes there was no shuffle of songs! Yea!
2: I then looked at the iphone and where they used to have turn shuffle on or off of course wasnt there any more, only thing was that they had shake to shuffle in the music settings. I flipped the switch, plugged the iphone back in and restarted iTunes. Guess what???? No songs shuffled within iTunes! Hurray!
So apperantly it seems iTunes may be over ridden by device settings if their plugged in at the same time while trying to play ones iTunes..... smh
Check to see if this might be your scenario or not. I think I had even tried to go into the iTunes preferences or plist a while back and turn the code from true to off but that was a while ago also and it did not work anyway when I have a mobile device plugged in for recharging while iTunes was open.

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