Front Row with Snow Leopard 10.6.8 after installing iTunes 10.4 ?

Is Front Row 100% compatible with that combo ?

Hi kguinn
If you are running iTunes 10.4 under Snow Leopard, it will be running as a 32-bit application. That is why you don't see any option to force it to run in 32-bit mode. iTunes can only run in 64-bit mode within Lion.
I'm using the latest iTunes on both a SL install and a Lion install. On SL, where it's running as a 32-bit application I can continue to use Front Row exactly as I have always done - browsing playlists and downloaded TV shows from my iTunes library. On Lion, with a reinstated Front Row, I cannot access anything from my iTunes library - even when forcing the application to run in 32-bit mode. This is because the underlying frameworks are all 64-bit and it is these that Front Row must access in order to draw down content from an iTunes library. And poor old Front Row, being a native Snow Leopard 32-bit only application, doesn't have the capacity to drive these 64-bit frameworks.
From your post it looks like you haven't yet updated to Lion. If you will be wanting to reinstate Front Row once you do make the move, then don't update iTunes. From the other posts on this site, it looks like those who've reinstated Front Row and haven't updated iTunes are enjoying all the features of Front Row that they had in Snow Leopard.
If you have no intention of upgrading to Lion, then you can upgrade iTunes and still enjoy Front Row in the way you currently do.

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