When the main panel is in Album Cover view, and you have the expanded panel enabled, when you click on an album the expanded panel opens.
That makes it slightly difficult if you just want to select several albums (by clicking and holding Ctrl).
Bump.
This tread became quite lengthy and digressed a lot, but the original issue still remains.
Using album cover view and the extended panel option (both are nice), it is still impossible to select one or more albums without the expanded panel opening, which results in all albums getting other positions then they had before you clicked the first one.
That makes it a jumpy and nervous exercise to select more than one album for further actions.
(plain irritating to be honest)
One solution I can think of could be that e.g. clicking the top left corner of an album only selects it, and doesn't collapse the extended panel.
Another solution could be using a modifier key, so that e.g. using {Alt}+{left mouse click} only selects, and doesn't collapse the album.