Album art disappeared

After the recent iTunes updates (I'm now running 7.3), as well as some changes I made in file locations, all of the album art I had previously downloaded off of iTunes is gone, however the art that came with downloaded music remains. I tried to re-download it, but I keep getting the error message:
"Artwork for [album title] could not be found. An unknown error occurred (-50)."
Next, I tried deleting some of the music and importing the CD again, but when I tried to download the album art, I got the same error message.
What is causing this problem and how can I fix it and get my album art back?

Since version 7 and the introduction of the 'get artwork' feature, iTunes will fetch artwork for any music you import (as long as they have it in their store)
However, when you fetch artwork this way it seems that it doesn't get embedded in the actual file (as it is with any iTunes purchases or artwork that you manually add via 'get info - add artwork')
Instead it stores it in an iPhoto style library which resides in User/Music/iTunes in a folder named 'Album Artwork'
Next time save and copy this folder to your new iTunes folder or you can use Doug's applescript to embed the artwork into every file. available here (3rd one down)
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/searchTheScripts.php
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