"Go To Current Song" appears broken for playlists

"Go To Current Song" should take me to the current track and give it focus (i.e. highlight it). If I'm playing the song straight out of my library, it does the right thing; but if the song is in a playlist, it jumps to that playlist but does not highlight the track. Focus remains on the playlist in the left column (i.e. if I hit the arrow keys up/down the playlist changes).

In the last version of itunes, you could simply click the arrow next to the song to immediately jump to it, leaving all of your layout grid intact. As it stands now, it goes to the song playing, but jumps to a new layout and the playlists go away (if they are showing).  This is my problem.  I think i found a workaround for this. It's not as easy as pressing one button, but it works.  Here's what i  do:
1. Go to "View" in the dropdown menu and toggle "Hide Sidebar" (cntrl-s).  This will put your layout back to what it used to look like on the last version, where your playlist is on the right side of the screen with the "Music, Movies, TV Shows, etc" all stacked up like they used to be.
2. When you want to jump to a song, mouse over the song in the upper-middle window until the arrow appears.  Right Click on it (PC users), and select "Go To Song."  Voila, your layout stays the same and in the song list, you pop to your currently playing song.
Again, not as simple as one click of the arrow, but it works.  i still agree this is annoying and wish the old functionality worked.  i am a Dj and make a LOT of play lists and jump around to tracks quite a bit.  Apple, please fix this.  Thanks.  It might not be everyone's fix on this thread, but I hope this helps somone. 
~s~

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