Can I keep music videos from taking over?

I like to play music while I work on my computer.  At one point I began buying music videos of songs rather than audio only so most of my playlists contain a mixture of music videos and audio only tracks.  Whenever a music video plays it jumps to the front, often covering my work.  What's worse is that after the music video ends, if the next song is audio only, the album cover jumps to an even larger area of the screen than covered by the video!  It seems like in the old days I could limit my music playback to the "Now Playing" window.  I can't find that choice anywhere in preferences or menus any more. 
My question is, is there any way to prevent iTunes from hijacking my screen; to hear the music but keep the associated music visuals in the background? 
I'm running iTunes 10.5 on my 12-core tower, OS X, 10.6.8.
TIA,
Peter

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