Full screen Playback only on Main Display

I noticed that after upgrading to Lion quicktime player won't play movies full screen on my second display. Under Snow Leopard if the quicktime window was on the second display and you hit full screen it would fill the display is was on. Now the video slides to the main display and then goes full screen. There doesn't seem to be any way to change that behavior. There are no preferences.
The only work around is to move the menu bar in the display preferences to the second menu, so that the second monitor becomes the main one.
Any solutions or terminal commands I make to set it back to the old way?

This issue seems to be related to Lion's "Full Screen App" mode in Lion, where a window that goes to full screen creates a separate Space, and it always uses the "primary" screen (the one with Menu Bar). So it's the same as making a Safari window go to full screen; it always uses the screen with the Menu Bar.
But I did noticed something interesting. If it's a video that can play in iTunes (instead of using QuickTime Player), then you can make it play full screen on the other screen. Play the video in iTunes so that it plays in a separate window. Move the window to the secondary screen (the one without Menu Bar), and make it go full screen. It plays at full screen on that screen.
So it is possible, but Apple has not done it for QuickTime Player. You should send Apple feedback to request the same functionality for QuickTime Player, like I did.
Also, VLC Player (third-party video player app) still uses the "old school" way of doing full screen mode, so it still works the same way as before. Full screen will go to the screen that has the window playing the video.

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Component
Details
Subscore
Base score
Processor
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5670 @ 2.93GHz
7.8
5.9
Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)
12.0 GB
7.8
Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
6.9
Gaming graphics
4607 MB Total available graphics memory
6.9
Primary hard disk
288GB Free (465GB Total)
5.9
Windows 7 Enterprise
System
Manufacturer
Dell Inc.
Model
Precision WorkStation T7500
Total amount of system memory
12.0 GB RAM
System type
64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores
12
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s)
465 GB
Disk partition (C:)
288 GB Free (465 GB Total)
Media drive (D:)
CD/DVD
Disk partition (F:)
0 B Free (39 MB Total)
Graphics
Display adapter type
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800
Total available graphics memory
4607 MB
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1024 MB
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0 MB
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Display adapter driver version
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1920x1080
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itproperf/thread/d4f155d8-6ff6-4741-bb2d-8 ed184b7a45c
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