My thought about the truncated filenames issue

The current iTunes version (7.0.2) for Windows still truncates filenames to 36/37 characters of all the music it imports from cd's and when you enable the option "Keep iTunes Music folder organized"
I have found several posts on these forums that suggest it has to do with the Windows 255 character path limit. But even the longest song name that I know doesn't reach this limit using the default library location and naming conventions and results in a path of just over 200 characters (even leaving room to spare for a ridiculously long username):
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Pink Floyd\Ummagumma (Studio Album)\2-06 Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict.m4a
Wouldn't it be much better to only truncate the names that actually do exceed the path limit, because iTunes has absolutely no problems playing files with long filenames. Because when I disable the "organize" & "copy files" options, rename the truncated files to match the tag data and fix the broken links by hand, it works like a charm.
But I would love to avoid all this manual fixing and managing and just let iTunes figure it out properly.
Please, rid iTunes of this frustrating behaviour!!!
Kind Regards,
JupiterZen
Windows XP Pro

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