Always on top works only on top of iTunes window

When running iTunes 8, the video will only play on top of the iTunes window, but I can put other windows above it. This is not ideal.
Is anyone else having problems with this?

I don't know what happened, no updates to iTunes, but videos will now play on top of other windows.
Edit: It seems that as soon as I posted this, it stopped working.
Message was edited by: jdstanley

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