Why is my iPhone asking for my iTunes password randomly and repeatedly?

I have seen this question in several discussions, but all are archived. None had an answer. I have 3 iPhone 4S's and 3 iPod Touch 4g's. All, radomly but frequently enough to be annoying, display a pop up screen when first using the iPhone/Pod Touch (normally from sleep mode) asking for your iTunes password. It gives you the option to select "cancel" or "enter"and sometimes I just hit cancel b/c I am so fed up with this. I notice no problems if I do not enter my password and hit "cancel." But, who knows if something is compromised by not giving the device what it "wants." So, most of the time I enter my password hoping that will satisfy the "beast" and it will not ask for it anymore. No luck.
I hope someone knows the answer to this before the "Gods of Archive" close this question/discussion. I have to believe something is going on that is not right.
One iPhone 4S and iPod Touch 4g is running off a MacBook Pro running Lion 10.7.3
Two iPhone 4s's and two iPod Touch 4g's are running off MacBook Pros running Snow Leopard 10.6.8
All devices are sharing the SAME iTunes password for apps, music, etc.
Best, Mr. Luigi

For those who might be experiencing this same problem, I'll pass on the things I try and whether it meets with any success or not.
Here is my latest idea:
As I mentioned earlier, our family of 3 shares 1 itunes account for apps, music...This way, one song, one app, whatever purchased by one of us can be used on the other's iDevices. Up until recently we had 8 devices sharing this one account:
3 MacBook Pros
3 iPhone 4S's
1 iPad Original + 3g
1 iPad 2 +3g
Then we were given 3 iPod Touch 4th generation devices. I set them up and things seemed ok. Seemed...
Then I noticed in the iCloud "Account Info" for this 1 account the 1 iPad Original + 3g was not listed as included with this Apple account. Hm...
In iTunes, I had 'Automatically Sync New Apps" turned ON for the iPad Original + 3g. However, I noticed in the actual iPad Original + 3g that when I went to Settings --> Store, Automatic Downloads for Music, Apps, and Books was set to OFF. So, I naturally turned those to ON to coordinate with the "Automatically Sync New Apps" setting for this device in iTunes. Next time I turned on that iPad a warning pop-up appeared that said only TEN devices could be associated with 1 iTunes account for automatic downloads. Hm...
I thought that perhaps having all our iDevices (8 of them) set to "Automatically Sync New Apps" was confusing iTunes because that meant I was asking it to Sync New App to 11 total devices (including my 3 computers).
So, I am going to watch and see if anything happens by taking our original iPad out of the "loop." Maybe this sorta random having to enter my password is because iTunes can't "handle" having 11 devices asking for app syncing when Apple has told it to only allow 10 devices. (BTW, I think that Apple needs to change this rule now that it has Computers, iPhones, iPod Touches, AND iPads competing for those precious 10 spots. It's easy to use them up even for a small family of 3 like ours.)
If this has confused you, welcome to the club. There is another discussion focused on families and their use of the new iCloud service. It's a gargantuan discussion, so I'm not the only one perplexed as to the best way to manage a house of Apple Products sharing an iTunes account.
All I can hope is that I am now confused at a higher level, and about more appropriate things so that eventually I may figure this out. Bye.

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