ITunes interface too much "in my face"

hi gang,
small problem, but it still bugs me. i have a decent sized library (85 gigs) and i enjoy looking around and just tweeking on it much as i used to enjoy more or less fondling my old record collection. i generally have music playing while i do so. what bugs me is that, no matter where i am in my library, when the song that's playing ends iTunes will jump back to show me the next song in the list and i have to go fishing my way back to find where i was goofing around before.
any way to tell iTunes "hey, thanks but no thanks. if i want to see what's playing at any given time i can just do a command-L but until then, kindly leave me to my tweeking" ? it's kind of jarring.
anyways, enjoy your weekend everybody and happy holidays!!

The way I get around this is to put thiings I want to play in party shuffle,
then play the party shuffle. This way you can mess around as much as you want in the "music" area and it doesn't jump around. Command-L will still jump you to the currently playing track.

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