ITunes 7 breaks "0 Upcoming" Shuffle

My preferred way to use iTunes is to use Shuffle mode with 0 upcoming songs, so that it continuously plays random songs, but if I wish to listen to a particular song next, I can simply drag it into the Party Shuffle playlist.
However, iTunes 7 has suddenly decided that "0 upcoming" songs should only play the current song and not play anymore. It has removed all functionality from this option. Does anybody here know of a suitable workaround?

Thanks for your reply Rob... but your technique actually requires more clicks/mouse movements if I want to add an entire album, or worse... multiple albums! (which is what I regularly do).
I'm afraid I still disagree with this change of behaviour in iTunes 7, as I see no good reason to break the previous functionality in this way. Do you know if this change was a calculated one, or if it happened by mistake? If it is a mistake... any chance of some internal campaigning to get the old behaviour back?

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