Album art database is oddly huge, even relative to other iOS devices

I have an iPad and an iPhone. Both get music from the same source. Both take the tracks from my computer's library, downsize them to 128kps and there we are. However, the on-device Art Database sizes are very different and not in the way that makes sense. The size of the DB files was gathered using iPhone Explorer.
iPad has 4225 tracks. Art database is 2408MB
iPhone has 2334 tracks. Art database is 3104MB
A vast majority of the iPad library and the iPhone library overlap, so there is ZERO reason why the iPhone art DB takes up more space than the iPad's, unless something else is stored there that I dont understand. There are more FILES in the iPad DB, but they are overall smaller files. Each iPhone DB file is 200-500 MB. iPad DB files can be between 12-500MB
See the problem? Any thoughts? Any idea where I could direct this problem to, even? I just don't get it.

Thanks for the responses thus far.
I had thought it might be an ID3 issue, so I took a sample of songs that were having issues and converted their ID3 tags to other formats (and versions)... unfortunately it didn't help.
What's baffling is that I experience this problem with the majority of songs in my library, and I have over 9000. In any given album, on average, 1 or 2 songs may be fine but the majority will have this issue.
I suspect it may have to do with the iTunes library file and/or the XML files that serve as transaction logs to ID3 data. Additionally, none of the iTunes art importers work (they crash when trying to execute an import,) and I had only first experienced the problem in general when I last reformatted my computer and rebuilt the library.
Any other thoughts would be much appreciated? I did happen to find one other user w/ a similar problem in this forum but no one had ever replied w/ an answer.
Regards,
Mark.

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