Adding Artwork in iTunes 10

I used to just search for the artwork in Firefox, then go to Get Info in iTunes and drag and drop the album art...
That doesn't seem to work now. Oddly enough it worked ONE TIME but it hasn't worked again since. The cursor doesn't change.
What's the fastest way to add artwork in iTunes10?

adding artwork never was a problem. Usually, as was already suggested, I would choose the whole album (highlight all songs from the same album), if I see all the songs, or just right-click on the album if I am in the higher level menu (see only albums), then go to Get Info and in the main Tab called Info there is a place for the artwork in the bottom right corner, where I'd drug the artwork file from the browser or Finder. There is a green plus sign appearing above the field, then just drop the image there.
It always worked, NOT ANYMORE, probably, after I updated to version 10.5.2, cannot be sure: I've just converted an LP into wav files using a converter and then tried to add the artowork to them. That did NOT work the way I described above. For some of single songs I was able to add artwork by droppping the file into the artwork field
at the left bottom corner of the main iTunes window, but for some it did NOT work! Some further investigation gave the following: if I open Get Info for some individual songs, there is an Artwork tab there which is accessible (and show by clear black colour). The artowork can then be also added there (by dragging). However, for some songs that field is not anymore accessible and is masked (shown by a soft gray colour). I have no clue of why this happens!!! Does anybody have any idea???

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