Album Art is taking over my PC!

Is there anywhere which describes the proper folder structure for iTunes v9 on the PC?
I have watched it change where it keeps the audio from:
*My Music/iTunes/iTunes Music*,
to:
*My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media*
and now it has gone even deeper into a new Music folder in:
*My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music*
(although quite a few albums have been left behind in iTunes Media for some reason.
However.... I now seem to have Album Art all over the place!
There is a folder in *My Music/iTunes/* called *Album Artwork* and in that are two folders called Cache and Download
Then in *My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media* I STILL have all the *nested Artist/Album folders* that used to have the music in. The music has now moved to *another set of nested folders* in the *My Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music* folder, but the old folders structure remains with a whole load of album art files in them.
Then inside *iTunes Media* there's ANOTHER folder called *Album Artwork* with folders inside called Cache, Download and Local.
This is getting silly! Surely it doesn't need the artwork in THREE different places?
Can someone explain which places are still needed and which ones I can get rid of?
And will it all change again on the next update?
Message was edited by: Andy_P2002

Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
The newer *iTunes\iTunes Media\Music\<Artist>\<Album>* layout somewhat belatedly recognises that iTunes is no longer just a music player but holds all kinds of media and tries to structure each kind into its own set of folders inside the main *iTunes Media* folder.
iTunes 9 has an option to upgrade libraries in the older layout to *iTunes Media Organisation*. This would normally involve moving an awful lot of files about, but for reasons best known to Apple they didn't automatically rename any existing *iTunes Music* folder as *iTunes Media*. I suspect, however, that it was originally part of the plan as I have found that in many cases I have been able to simply rename *iTunes Music* as *iTunes Media* and iTunes knows where to find every file. Of course milage may vary and I'm not sure what happens if the library has some content in iTunes Music, other in iTunes Media and you try to merge the two... It may well go badly.
Another legacy of the older layout is that the .xml file is called *iTunes Music Library.xml* if, and only if, the iTunes library folder is in the default *(My )Music* folder for the Windows profile. Move or create a library elsewhere and it will be called simply *iTunes Library.xml*. (Haven't checked 9.2, but we'll assume that hasn't changed for now.)
Moving on... iTunes doesn't store art locally in your folders, but Windows Media Player does. If WMP has catalogued your library and then iTunes later rearranges everything you may well have a whole heap of folders containing nothing but hidden artwork, desktop.ini & Thumbs.db files. The solution is a script I wrote called CleanDeadArt.
The folders below *iTunes\Album Artwork* are artwork caches that iTunes creates to aid the display of art in iTunes and on any devices. If you throw the folders away iTunes will just rebuild them. You will also lose any store downloaded art that you haven't embedded into your files.
tt2

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