Play itunes videos on a Large Second Monitor

Hi Folks,
Ultimately, my goal is to have a late model Mac Book Pro, connected to a least a 24 in. secondary monitor or High end Larger tv 32-50 inches or so connected through a HDMI cable.
Then I would like to run iTunes - in which the APP will show on the laptop screen, and as I trigger videos from iTunes - they will play on the secondary monitor - all in my preset large size.
Currently - in my testing I have a Vista PC laptop running iTunes (latest) and 24 in. secondary monitor.
At first I set video preferences : separate window full-size - but each time a video played - it would black out the laptop's screen which I do not want to do - since I need to use iTunes while the video plays... (to select other videos etc.)
The video prefs were then set to: open in a separate window
At first - I started playing a video - and dragged it to the 24 in. monitor and set it to a large size
As I jump from video to video - many times the newer video would resize itself to a small window - often different for each one - and I would have to manually resize it... not what I wanted to do.
So - I set up one large screen size - then I selected all the videos - Control-i (get info) - and set all of them to remember playback position....
Then - as I jumped around from one to another - they seem to stay closer to the size I want - But some still get smaller and bigger...
Q: how can I set this up - so all videos will play on the second monitor in the same position and size window for each one?
Is this better on a MBP or should Vista PC work right also? Is it better on the latest mac w snow leopard?

*I was wondering if you can play music videos on a second generation iPod nano.*
The second generation Nano is not designed for video playback and won't load music videos, video podcasts or other video files.
*It has a space for music videos but I'm not sure if you can play them*
iTunes has a default video playlist, the Nano picks this up but not any files that are contained in it.

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