ITunes 7 doesn't display artwork of currently playing song

Minor annoyance, it was working correctly for a while but now instead of displaying the artwork for the song that is playing, it displays that for the song that is currently selected. Any ideas as to why?

I guess the Artwork pane is set to 'Selected Item'.
Click on the text 'Selected Item' to change it to 'Now Playing'.
Hope this helps.
M

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