"New Playlist from Selection" not working in iTunes 8?

Anyone else having this problem? I click on a track and attempt to click "New Playlist from Selection" and it's shaded out....for every track....all the time...

I suppose, although there is no rule that a playlist must be multiple items. There are times when a playlist might only be a single track (e.g. to burn an audio book file out to an audio CD).
Besides, you might be on a song and decide, hey, I have an idea for a playlist and this song is the first one and at that point create a new playlist starting with that song. THEN going to get the other songs. So why not be able to start a playlist with a single track?
Cheers,
Patrick

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