"Get Info" result box

Upgraded to Snow Leopard. In the past when I would use "Get Info" and hilghted more that 10 items it would give me one Get Info box with all the size info I wanted. I just did it to 50 photos and 50 Get Info boxes came up. Pain in the ***. Does anyone know how to put it back to 10 or more, one info box.
Thanks
Bob

Press the Control key and choose Get Summary Info, or the Option key and choose Show Inspector.
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So, in the options tab,
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I recently tried to 'get info' on a few .wmv
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no matter how many times I tried it.
ALL other filetypes will yield 'get info' results
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