ITunes no longer plays downloading movies!?!?

Okay so on the last two movie files I've downloaded from the iTunes store, I've had to wait for them to completely download before they will play at all. It used to be that I could play the movie as far as it was already downloaded. Now, when I click play it goes to a black screen (as if the file started to play but nothing is happening - the play button turns to pause, again as if the file is playing, but the time index does not progress). I can manually seek and see individual frames of the movie (as if paused) but I still cannot get them to play from any time index position (even though I can see the frame).
Perhaps this is simply something that no longer works in the latest version of iTunes but if so then that's quite dissappointing.
I recently upgraded to Lion and I suspect this may be a factor (I don't remember if iTunes was updated at the same time or not). To be honest, so far I'm not at all impressed with Lion - it's quite a bit slower and glitchier than what I've come to expect from Apple (but hopefully there will be patches soon).
Currently my versions are:
Mac OSX: 10.7
iTunes: 10.4
(Just ran software update and it says everything is up to date)
Anyway, if anyone has encountered this or has a possible solution, please post.
Thanks!

The iTunes Store Movies FAQ still says:
Can you begin playback while the movie is downloading?
Yes. How quickly playback begins depends on the on the speed of your Internet connection.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1906#faq24
Mac OS X 10.71 was released this afternoon. Run software update again. Maybe it will help.

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