ITunes 9: a lament for the shopping basket

Much as I love the concept of a wish list, my shopping basket WAS my wish list before.
I don't like one-click buying, so I turned that off and added stuff to my shopping basket as I went. Now the option to use a basket has been removed from iTunes.
So what's the problem? Very simple: the shopping basket was available from any window within iTunes regardless of what I was doing at the time.
And now it's not. It's only available from the iTunes home page.
User Centric Design department mush have been on holiday when they finalised iTunes 9.
Edit: Just seen the drop-down next to my account link. Sorry, but that's just nasty and nothing compared to having an actual shopping basket.
Message was edited by: Grahame Fendle

Just to follow up on this, it's my belief that this change fundamentally breaks iTunes and makes the concept of a store analogy no longer valid.
Imagine going into your local shop, picking something up and being charged for it right there and then. Of course I will be writing to Apple using the links provided.
I'm not going to test it, but for all I know when you click on 'buy' the selected item may well end up in a shopping cart where I can confirm my purchase, but if it's an instant transaction then I'd be very upset. I wonder what the OFT might have to say about such behaviour in an online store likely to be used by millions who are not as computer literate as myself and many others here.
The whole idea of a shopping basket is that you can change your mind. There should, and must be, a shopping basket in addition to, not instead of, a wish list.
One friend of mine who spends a great deal of money on iTunes won't be buying anything else until such time as the old functionality - turn off one-click, use a shopping basket - is returned. I don't consider myself to be a heavy purchaser of music, but I've got 1200 items in my purchased list since I converted to Mac last December. There are seven items in my wish list, and they'll be staying there until such time as this is repaired. The only purchases I'll make are those that I've pre-ordered.
What with clear reported issues with Genius, Sharing and other matters, I would expect a fix for this in very short order from Apple, but what with the problems with Snow Leopard, and fixes required in just a few days, I'd have to say it's a little disappointing.
This really is a classic case of breaking something that didn't need fixing in the first place.
There's also a length discussion about the same matter over here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2150903&tstart=0

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