Hello! Thank you for your response.
As far as the differences between the waveforms go, the music volume levels don't sound natural due to the newly imposed compression.
Currently, I am using version 10.95, how current is that?
Thanks for the checkbox tip! It was checked, but after I unchecked it there was no change. I think it's because ultimately it's a compression and not a normalization issue.
Update: I updated the software and that did help a little, but some automatic compression is still present.