[Qgis-user] Single label on multipart polygon

[Vivien Deparday]

Hello:
I have a polygon layer (a shapefile) with several features that have 
multiple parts (administrative zones that include landmass and numerous 
islands). When I enable the Labels on it, I end up with the same label 
repeated many times for the features that have multiple parts.
I would like to have only one label for each feature otherwise the 
labels are not legible as they overlap each others.

I found the following option in the advanced labelling features: "Label 
every part of multi-part features" but this didn't change anything (even 
though it sounds like this would do the opposite of what I would like so 
it should be good by default)?.

Am I missing something? Is it an issue with my shapefile? or should I 
report a bug?

I have Qgis 1.7.3 on ubuntu.

Thanks,

Vivien