Song Played Twice in Party Shuffle

I have a smart playlist set as the source in my Party Shuffle with a rule to only allows songs that haven't played in the last week. However, sometimes the same song appears in Party Shuffle twice, since it still hasn't played recently while it's only in the queue to play. However, after the first instance plays, the second instance is still queued, even though it no longer matches the rules in my smart playlist. How can I submit this to Apple as a bug report/wishlist item for the next update of iTunes?

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First of all, I have tried browsing everywhere for help with my problem, but I am not finding the solution so thanks in advance for your help!
Since updating my iTunes to 7.3.1 my Party Shuffle doesn't work like it used to. Prior to this, I would just click on "Party SHuffle" and it would randomly select 20-25 songs from my Music Library. I would refresh it as much as I wanted and it would give me new songs. NOW when I click Party Shuffle, nothing comes up UNLESS I go into my library and click the little box next to each song (I have not been able to figure out how to select ALL the boxes at once), but even then it puts the songs I've selected in my shuffle not once but THREE times!
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