Adding local artwork to tracks in itunes without embedding

hi
i am new to itunes, having recently switched from a PC to a Mac, and am trying to add artwork to tracks in my itunes library. all of my artwork is stored in each album folder. the images are typically 300-400kb each (i want high quality artwork for fullscreen playback so have scanned my CD covers) and i have multiple artwork for some albums, so would rather avoid embedding artwork as this could increase the size of an album folder by several MBs. i am aware of the Album Artwork folder for non-embedded itunes artwork that is accessed using the 'get album artwork' feature in itunes 7, but this only seems to work for getting album artwork from the itunes store, which i don't want to do as i already have better quality artwork on my local hard drive. so does anyone know a way of getting images into the Album Artwork folder from a local drive in such a way that they will be recognised in itunes?
thanks
nick.

Check this out ->
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200610011
1071871
this method works for adding single artwork images to each album, placing them in the Album Artwork folder as itc files, but for some reason the images aren't picked up for the Cover Version visualisation. And because i want to have more than one image for most of my albums, i think i am going to have to embed all art, unless anyone has any other ideas.
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