Description: Audio level from mixer in Cinnamon too loud after ANY audio app is launched

The volume resets to 100% in Cinnamon while *ANY* audio application is launched (except Firefox Flash audio/video applet)

Now, I do not think this limited to only Arch, as I have found other users with a very similar behaviour but in their example the sound was too low and this was with another audio chip.
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=113695
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/1001678

I have tried different things on the wiki and other recommendations across the internet in combination with pulse audio and alsa. All these options either end up that the audio mixers are corrupt or there isn't any sound output. Leaving the options to their defaults is the best (which actually isn't any good). I am using normal analog out put. No digital sp/dif or anything else, just normal speakers connected to minijack analog out.

- I have put lines in combined audio output in the /etc/pulse/default.pa, played with combinations and such, but no matter what I do I can't find any solution.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples

### Load analog device
load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0
load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined
set-default-sink combined

Changing /etc/asound.conf has a similar effect

The only thing that works is removing Pulse, but that makes Cinnamon unusable. Previously installed Xfce with just ALSA. This works fine. I suspect the audio-app or the Cinnamon mixer is fighting with the pulse-mixer.

Additional info:

Hardware:
Mother board: ASRock Z87 Extreme4/TB4
Video card: XFX GeForce GTX 260

* package version(s)
[joris@Tux ~]$ pacman -Ss pulse* | grep "installed"
extra/libcanberra-pulse 0.30-4 [installed]
extra/libpulse 4.0-6 [installed]
extra/paprefs 0.9.10-2 [installed]
extra/pavucontrol 2.0-2 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio 4.0-6 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2 [installed]
[joris@Tux ~]$ pacman -Ss alsa* | grep "installed"
core/mdadm 3.3-1 (base) [installed]
core/texinfo 5.2-1 (base base-devel) [installed]
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.27.2-1 [installed]
extra/alsa-oss 1.0.25-2 [installed]
extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.27-2 [installed]
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.27.2-1 [installed]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-2 [installed]

Steps to reproduce:

- Use the audio chip:
- Install Cinnamon with pulse.
- Run any audio application, noise, rhythmbox, decibel-audio-player