Bwahahahahahaha! Take that iTunes!

Have you got a good text editor on your WindowsXP box? No, better than that one. Try Notepad++. Once you have that you can get iTunes to behave the way you want with a bit of searching and some bravery. For example I just put this string of text

<key>invertStoreLinks</key>
<data>
dHJ1ZQ==
</data>

into the iTunesPrefs.xml file under the "User Preferences" key. (To find your pref file in XP go to \Documents and Settings\"Your User Name"\Application Data\Apple Computer\iTunes, if you're using Vista you have my profound sympathy.) When I restarted iTunes the little arrow links next to the album, artist, and so on default to taking me to that album or artist in my music rather than to the iTunes store. Though if I want to go to the store I could still do it by holding down the control key while I click.

If you fiddle around with ANY windows .eml file save a backup first! Very, very, very important. Other than that, have fun!

Other keys
Turn off the arrows completely
<key>show-store-arrow-links</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>

Turn off the genre column in the music browser
<key>show-genre-when-browsing</key>
<data>
AA==
</data>

To reverse any of these just fire up Notepad++ again and delete the section from <Key> to </data>