If I add a file, save it, remove it, and immediately re-add it, the file shows up as requiring a save (no checkmark). I dug into the python code and it would appear that it's the original date field that makes the file dirty. I uncommented the print at file.py line 360, and the offending metadata item that causes similarity to be not 1.0 is:

originaldate [u'2004-06-07'] [u'2004']

It would seem that this is because originaldate is stored as TORY in ID2.3 which only holds a year, so when it's read back in from the freshly saved file, it doesn't match.