Shuffle is not remembering playback position on podcasts - how to fix?

I seem to have gotten the hard part out of the way, I've figured out how to get podcasts onto my 2nd gen shuffle (Select all > Get Info > Options > Skip When Shuffling > No).
Now, the issue is that when I reattach the shuffle to the computer, I can't get it to recognize the playback position I'm in the middle of a file.
It works one way, computer > shuffle. If I've gotten to the middle of a file on the computer, the shuffle recognizes it and picks it up from the paused point, which is as it should be. But when I plug the shuffle back in after listening for a bit, it doesn't work from shuffle > computer. It does not recognize the new point where I hit pause on the shuffle, which is incredibly frustrating.
I went through and did a Select all > Get Info > Options > Remember Position > Yes to make sure there isn't an errant track not set up correctly, but that didn't help.
Anybody got any ideas? Or is this another "convenient feature" of how the 2G shuffle works with podcasts? Running iTunes 8.2 on OS X 10.5.
+Resolved by resetting. Never mind!+
Message was edited by: loudguitars81

I usually run my browser with around 4 to 5 tabs saved at all times, an example of the problem is one tab is a web page with a novel, if I were to read half way into the page when closing firefox, it will resume at the same spot I left off when I turn it back on.
However, if I were to change to a different tab and then close firefox, by the time I turn it back on and go back to the tab with the novel it'll return to the spot where I last refreshed, which usually is never so it returns to the top of the page. This is happening to every single tab/web site that was not refreshed anytime before I turn off firefox.
Everytime I close firefox I choose the save my tabs option and firefox had always remembered my last position for every tab before I upgraded to 27.0.1
Hope this is enough information to understand my problem.

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