Itunes Genius: Missing something

Basically just a gripe. I'd like the genius feature enhanced. I really love the automatic genius mixes itunes has somehow provided for me. But, It's frustrating not being able to see the actual playlist. It could be the answer to my prayers! Organizing my music roughly by genre or sound more efficiently than having to do it manually. It's kind of about time for itunes to give us this sort of an organizational tool that goes all out, not just roughly shuffle songs around for my listening pleasure. I would appreciate a conistently organized playlist I didn't have to create myself. Yes, I am that lazy and I have THAT much music I don't want to deal with! I am ok with it not shuffling songs over and over. Perhaps even give us the shuffle on/off option for genius itself!
The playlists are titled by genre and while some artists or songs overlap I could still use genius' ability to group things together automatically as a tool. My music info is not complete at all, and rather than change the genre info of every single song myself, having my music grouped together already would make it so much easier! Is there a way to get this idea to itunes ASAP? lol. Seriously, we need this technology now. Pease tell me I am not alone.

I think there's a little confusion here...I am (and i think TzTerri + others are) looking for is the genius purchase suggestions sidebar, not the genius playlist functionality.
I also (used to) use the genius suggestions sidebar a lot, i found most of my new music that way. If it's gone, i'm going to be very disaappointed. The cleaner interface is fine, no issues with it other than this - any chance we can have the genius sidebar back as an option please Apple?
Cheers
Neil

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