As you know by now, switching to info (or rather, out of visual) on startup in the car mode is a 'safety' (read 'anti-litigation') feature defeatable by a kernel hack. If the player does not remeber which of full-screen info modes was selected (track or now&next), then it's a bug. I think this has been discussed, even supposedly fixed.

Dragi "Bonzi" Raos
Zagreb, Croatia
Q#5196, MkII#80000376, 18GB green