Front Row Flip-Album-Art-every 30-seconds-distraction really *****!

I know there have been some posts about this, but I want my name added to the list of people who complained about it!
Apple-Feedback has been submitted.
I have 2 questions:
1) Why is it, that all the other threads about this issue are closed (archived) although unanswered? Can someone explain that to me?
2) Anybody with the Snow Leopard Golden Master on his system already: Is this s*-feature still present in 10.6?

I know. I tried Plex once but it's pretty hard to setup/use. I don't find it too user friendly.
-> Snow Leopard still very buggy atm
-> when browsing my iTunes Artists category there was no way to jump to an alphabet letter. I had to scroll through the whole library, which is pretty annoying when it's big
-> I never figuered how to display the song lyrics. It has a lyrics button, but when I clicked that while playing a song that had lyrics nothing happened.
Actually I like that app, but got very frustrated using it, because it comes with many many plug-ins but basic features still need soom tweaking and some more usability would be great. IMHO.
HEY, I just reinstalled Plex. And wow, they have a similar "one title" view to front row. And wow, it does NOT flip. Horray. I'm happy Guess I'll give it another try. Also I noticed a lot of changes. I think the last verion I used was like 7.9... 8.2 makes a good impression.

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