ITunes Mini Store

I recently upgraded iTunes to version 6.0.2.
The most noticeable new "feature" is an unanounced and unwanted "Mini Store," which appears at the bottom of the iTunes browser window when browsing my music library.
I find this highly annoying since I cannot find any option for turning this feature off. In looking through the new iTunes information, all I can find by way of dealing with the situation is to "click an icon and MiniStore tucks away, ready to pop up again later when you want to explore some more" (see http://www.apple.com/itunes/playlists/). This is problematic because I don't know what is meant by "click on an icon." All I can see is that the icons on the left hand side of the browser window remove this option, but that still does not cause the Mini Store to "tuck away" so I can browse my own library in peace.
I find this all very un-Apple-like by not providing an on/off buttton, an intrusion in my privacy, and a poor marketing scheme. I hope that forthcoming versions of iTunes will remedy the situation.
Does anyone know how to get around this, or turn it off, or, what more precisely is meant by "clicking on an icon?"
Thanks.
G5 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

When the MiniStore is hidden, no information is sent to whatever internet address.
You'll have to take my word for it (checked it with Network SpyAlert).
Don't believe all you read on this and that webpage. Those people still thinking information is sent are paranoid.
After installing iTunes 6.0.2, you will not be prompted enabling/disabling the MiniStore. It comes enabled.
So, if you missed that window, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight. It wasn't there.
M
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