List view problem in iTunes 10. How to move Album/Artist description text.

Starting with iTunes 10, in list view the Artist and Album name info was moved from underneath the Album Art in the "Artwork" column to the right of it. like the 1st screenshot below Is there a way to revert to having that info placed underneath the artwork like the 2nd screenshot below?

No, there is no option to change the the layout. FWIW I prefered the older layout too. We don't all have wide screens. You could drop a line to iTunes Feedback if you want.
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Hello community,
I experience a very strange behavior of iTunes in combination with Symlinked folders. I use Windows 7 and my folder structure is listed below. I have a Laptop with a 256GB SSD and instead DVD-Drive a 640GB SATA drive.
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The owner of the folder is the Administrators group which my user is a member of. There are several reason I cannot work a a regular user and I do not want to change that.
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Sorry for this text monster, but this really bugs me.
Best regards Bruce
P.S. Maybe Apple will here my whining and look into this behavior also.
+Directory of C:\Users\Username\Music (actually D:\Username\Music)+
+2010-09-28 13:12 <DIR> .+
+2010-09-28 13:12 <DIR> ..+
+2010-09-27 16:43 <SYMLINKD> iTunes [d:\iTunes]+
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+C:\Users\Username\Music>dir itunes+
+Volume in drive C has no label.+
+Volume Serial Number is B022-C44F+
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+2010-09-27 16:45 <DIR> Previous iTunes Libraries+
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+5 Dir(s) 146,808,844,288 bytes free+
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