How do I make itunes 11 go back to playing my whole library after search

I just upgraded to iTunes 11. I'll search an artist just to find a song more quickly and double click on a song to play it. Then, I'll press x in the search box so it displays my library again, and in previous versions of iTunes after the song ended it would go back to shuffling through my whole library. In iTunes 11, however, it only plays songs by that artist unless I select another song directly from the library. Is there a setting I can change to make it shuffle my library after I've selected a song?

See Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates, and note 1 in particular.
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(* Put This In That
v2.0 april 22 2008
- runs as universal binary
- adds "Show" tag
- consolidated code
- saved as script bundle
v1.7 October 3, 2006
- adds "Album Artist" as option
v1.6 October 28, 2004
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v1.5 ('04/1)-- adds "grouping" tag
Get more free AppleScripts and info on writing your own
at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Get a copy of the GNU General Public License by writing to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
or visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
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