Album Art Bugs?

I recently purchased a 5th Generation iPod, my 5th iPod, my previous one was an iPod Photo. I am experiencing a problem with album art. If i select an album, the most recent was Madonna's new album. I've added the album art in the same fashion I have since my 3rd iPod, and It shows up perfectly in iTunes. Howerver when playing on the iPod, It will start by showing Madonna's album art, and then with switch to an 'Nsync album cover.
This problem is not just with Madonna's album, It is now happening with EVERY song! It doesn't happen right away, however after a few songs of a playlist or album, there is Nsync's album cover again!
Any suggestions?

Yes there is a major bug here! I cant believe there isn't more people than this complaining about it?
I have a 5th Generation video iPod. running on a G4 Mac.
My problem is similar but involves random podcast images/album art taking over my pre existing song album art and not all of the songs from an album either just some of them?
This really *****! and I don't think that this is going to be fixed with anything other than an iPod update.
I have decided to not sync my ipod until this is fixed incase it screws with thousands of my songs and is not reversible other than manually re entering album art.
I too would like to complain and get this new update fast tracked to fix it.
Where do I do that?
iPod Video Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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