Album art in wrong place

My album art seems to come up randomly based on the song playing. As in that two songs from the same artist and album will have different cover art. usually another artists album art that is also on my iPOD. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone know how to fix it? All the album art is correct and correctly displayed in iTunes on my laptop.

Try unchecking "display album artwork" in the music preferences section when your ipod is connected and click apply. Then sync your ipod.
Then check "display album artwork" in the music preferences section when youd ipod is connected and click apply. Then sync your ipod.
This is trying to force itunes to resync the album artwork to the ipod.
If this does not work, you might need to restore the ipod to remove the all the songs and then resync your ipod to force itunes to load the album artwork with the songs.

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