Playback preview doesn't stop

Hi all, I've been having issues with the preview not stopping whenever I hit the space bar. Basically, when I preview something and hit the space bar it goes back to the time where I started to preview from. After I hit it again to do the preview again, it will sttop where I want it.

It first started happening when I updated to 23.2 I believe. It was so annoying I had to roll back to 23.0, since it didn't do that on that version. I updated to 23.4 and it's doing again. Any thoughts how to fix this? I love the new properties panel, which is why I updated to begin with, but it's exceedingly frustratinig when you need to stop at a particular point in time and have to preview twice in order to do so.,

Thanks