Searching iTunes stops music playback

I'm on a Mac running OS X Lion. Occaionally (frequently) when I'm listening to a music stream, like from di.fm, I will go to iTunes Store and search for the song to purchase. What I'm finding is that more often than not, this action causes the playback stream to stop. I have to go back and re-start it again.
This was *not* happening previously, in perhaps that last 2 versions that I can recall.
Has anyone else noticed this? It seems more like a bug than anything. I did leave feedback on the iTunes page, but who knows if it will get addressed.

As a note, my hard drive crashed and was replaced. I am still having the playback issues. Can't anyone suggest anything that will help?

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