Syncing causes movies to be treated as "new"?

Wondering if anyone else is experiencing this,and can offer suggestions or input as to solution....
I have noticed lately that when I go back to a movie that I've already started watching, the iPhone (3G, white, 16 gig) shows the movie with a blue dot, which signifies that it hasn't been watched/started yet. I am having to go to the chapter list and search through that to find where I left off.
I think that this is occurring when I'm syncing the phone.
By the way, should mention that this is occurring with movies that I've HandBraked. Haven't yet noticed it with an iTunes provided movie, as I haven't transferred/synced any of those from my Library yet.
TIA!

After reading your answer, I checked and it's already set up this way. Yet, I noticed this morning after syncing another movie to the iPhone (in addition to the one already on there) that afterwards, the first movie AGAIN is showing the blue dot (i.e., unwatched/unplayed).
Getting annoying having to go to the chapter list and try to figure out where approximately it was that I left off.....

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I completely uninstalled iTunes and all Apple software from pc. (yes, i have a mac but easier to keep this on the desktop).
I reinstalled iTunes, but something is still there, because my library immediately showed up. I turned off iTunes Match, updated the preferences to point to the new location and turned iTunes Match back on.
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I've read some things about holding down a "shift" or "command" key to select a library on iTunes startup... (part of my discovery on how I F-ed up my library when moving it in the first place)
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EDITED - well wait...!
I'm reading this:
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From:   Colin Brougham <[email protected]>
To:     Dan Seanor <[email protected]>
Date:   02/21/2011 09:49 AM
Subject:        Why Can't I Put My Clips on Certain
Video and Audio Tracks?
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(actually, there are more, but they are just combinations of these three).
A source clip can have mono audio, stereo audio, or 5.1 audio.
Correspondingly, there are specific types of audio tracks that must be in
a sequence in order for source clips with specific source channels to be
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audio track that matches the source channels of the source clip, a new
track will be created that matches, e.g. a stereo track for a stereo
source clip. However, if you try to insert or overlay a source clip into a
sequence that doesn't have a matching track, the audio will be ignored.
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the track header label (Audio 1, Audio 2, etc.). A single speaker is mono,
a double speaker is stereo, and "5.1" is displayed for 5.1. You can add
tracks manually by right-clicking the header area and selecting Add
Tracks, or going to Sequence > Add Tracks.
It sounds like you're working with media with various audio assignments;
the Project Panel display will tell you how many channels are in your
source clips if you don't know for sure. Once you know that, you can
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