Itunes9 on Snow Leopard Firewall always asking to be allowed

Since installing iTunes9 on Snow Leopard I get the "Do you want the application "iTunes.app" to accept incoming network connection" every time I open it! I have clicked "Allow" each time and have made sure to have it listed as "Allow incoming connection" in the Security/Firewall/Advanced Pref pane and it still asks each and ever time I open iTunes.
As far as trying to fix this I have tryed reinstalling iTunes9 and have removed the iTunes entry from the Firewall pref pane, removed iTunes from the start on boot menu, rebooted my Mac, then added iTunes to the Firewall setting, then launched. Still asks every time I open iTunes. Done this and several variations of it several times already to no effect.
In iTunes8 it was set the same in the Firewall settings and only asked me to allow it once the very first time I opened it, after that it was allowed by default and I never saw the pop-up window again asking me to allow it. This is becoming an annoying issue for me and I am wondering if anyone else has this same issue and/or knows a way to permanently set it to be allowed by default.
Any thoughts or ideas as to where I can change the file containing the Firewall settings manually or another way to default allow iTunes again would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
A normally happy Mac user...

Hi,
I had this issue, and reinstalling iTunes worked for me - did you remove the iTunes Helper app from your login items before uninstalling iTunes? You need to quit it in Activity monitor first.
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