Mixed audio/video playlists - suggestion for Apple

Hi all,
I'm wondering if there's any way to convey suggestions to Apple about the way we'd like to see certain things work on the iPod? Specifically, I find they way my new 5G iPod handles mixed audio/video playlists to be extremely dumb: videos play only if you access them through the Video menu, but if you just go to Playlists and select a video file, you get the audio but no video.
Surely when you select a video it should play the video, and when you select audio it should play that, right? The current situation is very much not the Mac way: it doesn't "just work". I hate having to remember whether I want to play a video or audio file - I'd rather just have one unified Playlists entry, and have each file do the appropriate thing when I select it.
Searching through the Apple site, I can't find any way to submit requested features. Maybe there isn't one . . .

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