Displaying album artwork 'fullscreen' on 160GB iPod classic?

I recently upgraded by 80GB iPod to a 160GB one.
I see the menu/interface is all "souped up".
Whilst it does look quite slick, I guess,
one thing i miss is the ability to press the centre button a couple of times, and it displays the album art "full screen" - this function no longer seems available on the 160GB model.
Instead, the cover art is shown tilted/slanted in perspective, with a "reflection" underneath.
This is all very "cool", doubtless, but it also distorts the image a bit and makes it smaller - sometimes I would like to see the detail clearly...

there's feedback pages?
(One piece of my feedback would be: why is the Apple site so hard to navigate and find anything on??
What's the link for that, I'll go tell feed back to them plenty!

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