ITunes 7 Video playback on Front Row

Hi.
I've recently upgraded to iTunes 7 and my front row will no longer play my videos. My other music works fine and i can still play videos via iTunes, but front row just tells me i have no videos in my library.
It worked perfectly with iTunes 6. It's just stopped since the download.
Can anyone help. Please!!!
Imac (Intel Core Duo)   Mac OS X (10.4)  

Apple have very kindly released an update and it has cured my problem. Thank you Apple.

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