Frustrating problem with Windows Media Player

I opened Windows Media Player today and went to minimize it while I did other
things, and it informed me that it would revert to it's miniplayer mode (the
thing where it moves to the right side of the taskbar and makes a miniature
player; not skin mode) and I checked the box that says "don't show me this
message again" I don't even know why it was telling me this, since that is
what it has until now always done, since I had already gotten that message
and ok'd it ages ago. When I clicked "Ok", it did not revert to the
miniplayer at all, and nowhere can I find the option to tell it to do so.
This is very irritating. I WANT it to do this, it's supposed to, but now it
doesn't anymore, and I can't do anything about it. I really need this fixed,
but there is no such option anywhere in the setting or in toolsptions. This
is ridiculous. You should have the option to change that, because apparently
the program is incapable of doing so itself, or cooperating when I told it I
wanted it to do this when it asked.