Artwork in Finder not visible

All of a sudden, I can't see the artwork of audio files in Finder any more.
I am pretty certain that I was able to see the artwork (cover art) a few days ago.
This happens with mp3's, m4b's, and m4a's.
All of the files reside on a external USB disk. They were never imported into iTunes.
When I do import them in iTunes, I can see the artwork just fine in iTunes - but not in Finder.
I tried all different Finder views , I tried to switch the preview off and on, to no avail.
I noticed that there is another thread in this group with a similar subject, but it seems to me that their problem is a bit different from mine, because their problem seems to have occurred with iTunes 9.2.
Whereas my files have never been imported to iTunes.
I'm running 10.6.4 on a MacBoookPro.
Any hints, suggestions, and tips will be highly appreciated.
Best regards,
Gabriel.
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Here's the Knowledge base article for repair permissions: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452.
Here's some additional info on disk maintenance: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/durepairfns.html.
These are the permission repair results that can safely be ignored: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448. Although to be honest I've never heard of a message for repair permissions that couldn't be ignored.

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