Playing a single album on repeat in iTunes 9

Have been encountering one major issue with iTunes 9 so far, regarding playback of a single album from an artist, of which you own many albums.
With the new Browse window on the left, showing Artists is nice, the merged album + track listing on the right does not allow you to select a single album and listen to only it on repeat. The existing action will cycle through all songs by an artist, and not a specific album you wish to listen to.
This is very frustrating, and a very questionable change from previous versions, as well a every other competitor's music playback applications.
In the previous versions i had removed the Genre browser from browse via some trick i read somewhere. Is there a secret trick to getting the album browse pane back?
It may deserve a separate topic, but when changing views from List, Grid, and Cover flow, it does not remember what artist you had browsed to when returning to List. Switching to cover flow and Grid work, but upon returning it focuses on the album and not the artist.

retracting this, read some other nonrelated posts and fixed the problem.
View menu > Column Browser > List of items.
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