No more "Album" smart playlist?

I just got a new laptop with vista on it and i have been uploading some CD's and i just noticed that i cannot create a smart playlist by album. Same thing for when i download CD's from the itunes store
Is this happening on everybody or jsut mine?
whats a way around it, its nice not to have to manually drag and drop all the songs into a regular playlist

Well, I just tried one as an experiment. Selected "Album" is "Bones of All Men". Worked fine. Now, I am using a Mac but that shouldn't make a difference.
Exactly what criteria are you using for your smart playlist?

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