ITunes 7 slow visualization

Hello everyone
iTunes 7 for the PC is top. I'm loving the new features,
BUT......
*** is happening with the visualizer? One of my fav things to do in the morning before I got up was to put the visualiser on and chill out to some tunes & swirling colours for a bit.
They have made it run at full native resolution (1600 x 1050 on my display) which means that i get about 3 frames a second, and a load of jitter when I try and change tracks or change volume. It's even worse watching it in a window, and reducing the screen resolution doesn't help either.
Anyone found a workaround to this yet to knock the res down?

Sounds like you have the iTunes visualizer configured to display full screen.
You can switch between modes with ctrl-F
Here is a complete list of keyboard shortcuts for iTunes 7 for Windows:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesWin/7.0/en/keycuts.html
For Macs its:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iTunesMac/7.0/en/keycuts.html

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