Shuffle problems in itunes 8

shuffle doesn't seem to work in grid view.
starts on first album and stays within that album, despite being set on 'songs'
any fixes for this?

Yep it works OK until you quit and load again and despite the shuffle option not being changed it refuses to shuffle the songs on top of which it will ALWAYS start to play alphabetically from A i.e. Air etc, which, after a while becomes REALLY REALLY annoying hearing the same song every time you start iTunes OVER and OVER and OVER again.
This IS a bug and a MASSIVE one at that!!
On top of all this your grid view stays exactly where you leave it and won't change to show the album currently playing which I know isn't a bug or anything but it would be nice to be able to "see where you're at" with your music.
Bu the way this has been discussed on this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8065026#8065026

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