Party Shuffle

My party shuffle feature is not working on my iTunes. I have the latest version and everything. I don't understand why it doesn't respond to ther Refresh key or any other changes (i.e. number of songs to show or source). Does anyone know what I can do?

hmmmmm.
we can check to see if this is a problem with the itunes program on the PC or if it's more to do with something going kinky with your itunes preference files in your usual XP user account.
... the experiment we'll need to do in order to work that out is going to be a bit of a performance, though ...
if you're game, let's try the experiment.
head into your user accounts control panel and create a new user account with full administrative rights. (there's help documentation on how to do that at the left of the control panel screen.) while you're in that control panel, switch off "fast user switching" in your logging-on preferences.
now log out of the old account and log into the new account.
launch itunes. it will run through the itunes set-up assistant. once that's done, you'll see a blank library screen.
import a few CDs into the library in that user account (so we've got something to play around with).
now open your party shuffle in that account. are the controls that you have trouble with in your standard user account responsive in the party shuffle in the new account?

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