No more closed caption?

Hi...
The last couple of movies I've rented, didn't have the closed caption option. I just thought I happened to get a couple that simply didn't have the option. I made sure my preference/playback/subtitles were on, but then I started noticing.... that NONE of the movies I randomly checked had the Closed Caption option. I'm sure I used to use CC with iTune rental movies... did I miss something? I've got iTunes 9.0.3--is there a change as far as how to get to the CC that I missed?
Thanks

Hey Jim,
Yes, that's been done, also. At first, none of that was checked, but after I went and checked the appropriate boxes, shut down iTunes, then relaunched... I got to notice any any random movie I chose--didn't seem to have CC available. I can't believe that it's the luck of the draw that I just "happened' to chose movies that didn't have CC available... that's what I found odd.
Thanks for the suggestion

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With all the fiddling I've been doing in raw captioning files the fact that I didn't just try increasing the hight of the track is completely rediculous. Lo and behold, there are the handles! Once I could actually see the captions in the track I noticed something interesting - that the .scc and .xml files are being interpreted quite differently.
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http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/osmf.adobe/index.php?title=Captions
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/OSMF/1.0/Dev/index.html
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Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Closed Captioning
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Now that Premiere Pro has close captioning we can import text as a layer in the timeline.
However, it only takes certain types of files. In the top video of this page: http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/closed-captioning.html
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2. Is there a way to convert a .txt file to a Scenarist format (scc)?

And here I thought I was giving you more info than you asked for, but fair point ;-)
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