Can no longer edit info on multiple items

It is so frustrating when an update makes some new change that takes away major functionality.  I have a folder of movies in itunes, a genre really, called "home movies".  I want to select them all and change something on them.  In this case, change them to the new "media kind" Home Videos.  So I select them all, or just a few or even just two of them and I get this message:
So in order to change the info in any way on these items, I need to select every single one of them one at a time.  Thing is, they are all the same media type anyway.  It seems this just must be a major bug, but wonder if anyone has any idea as to how to get around it so that I can access the info on multiple items like before.

Neainc1 is on the money.  I totally agree.  McBlob, the file types are the same and even if they are not, I should be able to multi select them just as I always could before!
I actually called Apple Support and after a long time while the agent checked with senior tech, they agreed it was a flaw and hoped it would be fixed in an update and encouraged me to send feedback to Apple, which I did, but I'm always suspicious about it meaning anything.  Still, hopefully they will fix it, but in the mean time, it is possible to downgrade to 10.7 here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1576

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