Why is my iTunes insisting on 'determining audio volume' every time?

I upgraded to iTunes 9 a few weeks back and seemingly from that point onwards my iTunes application wants to 'determine audio volume' on a great number of tracks as soon as the program is launched.
The setting is unticked in Preferences on iTunes and on the iPod I synch with.
I don't want it to be doing this, especially as I'm quite happy to manually change this level if I feel its required, but can find no way of preventing it, aside from clicking on the 'x' in the top window whenever it starts - which is becoming tiresome.
I've tried deleting the cache file in Library > Caches and also starting up in Safe Mode and then opening again in normal mode but all to no avail.
Help!!!

Make sure you have also unticked sound check in the burn settings dialog you get when you burn a playlist to disc.

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