ITunes miniplayer eating up RAM

When I have iTunes playing music in miniplayer mode, it uses up quite a bit more RAM than when it is playing music in full-window / minimized mode; e.g. >3 GB for miniplayer vs ~1.7 GB for full window. I'm surprised to see such a difference in RAM usage, and if anything, I'd have expected the miniplayer to use less RAM than the full window mode, not 2x more.
It's almost as if there's a memory leak in the miniplayer mode.
If I'm in miniplayer mode, and see the RAM usage growing, I just switch to full window mode, minimize that window, and the memory usage decreases significantly almost immediately.
Has anyone else seen this, or does anyone know what may be causing this to happen? I prefer to use the miniplayer whenever I can, but not at the cost of significant additional RAM usage.

Has anyone else seen this, or does anyone know what may be causing this to happen? I prefer to use the miniplayer whenever I can, but not at the cost of significant additional RAM usage.
A few people have reported this with the 10.6.x iTunes versions.
If you've got what they've been getting, it seems to happen when the main iTunes player is set to Cover Flow rather than List view.
If you set iTunes to List view prior to switching to the Mini Player, does that stop the excessive CPU use while in Mini Player?

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