Itunes *11* Accurate playlist duration - CONFUSED

So I upgraded to itunes 11 a week or two ago, and overall I think it's fine. However, I have been trying to burn a playlist to CD today and I am feeling really frustrated that the accurate playlist duration isn't working for me.
I've been reading a few other discussions about this problem, and some people seem to have had success with going to View / Show Status Bar, which then activates the status bar which shows them the duration in minutes and seconds.
However, this just doesn't seem to work for me! As you can see from the screenshot below, I don't even get the option of 'Show Status Bar' in my View dropdown. The status bar was there from the start, and it only shows decimal hours as the playlist length.
I don't want to have to manually add up all the times every time I burn a CD, so any help from you guys would be hugely appreciated!

cmd / just turns on and off the status bar but does not seem to allow for the previous functionality of clicking on the time in decimal format to convert it to HH:MM:SS
OSX System preference, Language and text, Region changes do not affect it either.
Guess this is either a new feature or bug depending which way you look at things

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