Daft video playback iTunes 6

So what am I missing? Maybe it's me that's being daft but... when I select in iTunes 6 preferences to "play videos in main window" it plays them in a tiny window on the bottom left of the iTunes window rather than the main black window where the list of videos is. I would hardly call the piddly little window which displays artwork the "main window". If I instead select "play videos in a separate window" they play in a separate window but shutting down that window does not stop the audio from that video continuing to play. Surely it's logical that if I have shut the window everything should stop playing and I shouldn't also have to click pause.
Did anyone actually use this version before shipping it out the door?

Perhaps it is "technically" correct to say it is within THE iTunes window but I would not say it's within the MAIN iTunes window which I think most would read to be the larger window to the right of the source column. Either way this video operation is simply daft and not at all well thought through. So ok, just use "separate window". But then you have the rather stupid situation where shutting that window down doesn't terminate the video play. Not very smart.

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