Album Art/Video Window Disappears

I normally have my album artwork/video window open all the time so that when one of my music videos comes on I can watch it in the corner of my iMac. Now just today it took to disappearing after each song, it closes itself and I have to go and click on it to get it to open back up, and then when it does open, it shows the artwork/video with a wide border on the left/bottom sides of a still of the video.
I haven't added anything or updated iTunes since the last update, I did update to 10.5.2, but that was the day it came out.
Anyone have an idea as to why the window closes after each song? I would really like to be able to keep it open all the time again, or atleast have itself open on it's own when a music video starts playing.
Thanks,
Garrett

*edit
Found workaround for this problem on web.
1. right click on itunes on your desktop and go to properties.
2. click on compatibility tab
3. check box for "Disable display scaling on high dpi settings and apply.
You will get a warning when you open itunes now that display settings are now set to an older version or something like that but just hit ok....and now full screen video! Probably isn't quite as clear as it should be if apple fixed this problem (I mean come on I know there have to be a ton of us out here that use large lcds or plasmas as our monitors so why its not fixed beats me) but hey at least it works in fullscreen mode this way. The major problem with this workaround is that it makes it quite hard to see text and other things in itunes store because they are now quite small. So what Ive had to start doing is keep it on normal settings while I go into itunes, and do my searching and renting and buying videos, then close it, make the changes of the workaround and then reopen it so that I can watch in fullscreen. Yeah its a pain but it works.
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