Searching Songs and Playing Them in iTunes

Hi guys,
I have a problem. When I do a search in the upper right hand box of iTunes, I get results. I would like to play my songs from this search. In Leopard, I would just let it run and the songs would automatically be ONLY from that search. However, ever since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, iTunes would follow the list in the 'All Artists' (as if I never did a search).
Does anyone know how I can fix this? Many thanks
Sid

While this does work, it used to work fine in the album grid view. Does anyone know of a setting that can change this back or what possessed Apple to change this to play songs not even shown in the main display list of songs?
It just seems like something that was common sense got messed up.

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