Album Art Madness! What's Going On? Thumnails Problems

1) I added album at to all of my tracks in my 'music folder' using itunes
2) Used Doug's AppleScrips for Itunes to embed the artwork
3) The icon on my music files changed from the itunes default grey background with a music note to display the album art when browsing my music files in finder
4) I copied my music folder with embedded artwork to my external HD as a backup
Every piece of software i've tried - itunes, traktor pro, songbird, vlc, media monkey (bootcamp), tag&rename (bootcamp) shows that the album art is with the file.
Yet...
1) If I copy tracks from my music folder to another location such as the desktop the file icon no longer dispays the album art on the icon - it is replaced by the grey itunes icon with the musical note.
2) If I rename tracks in my music folder the file icon no longer dispays the album art on the icon - it is replaced by the grey itunes icon with the musical note.
3) The backup I made on external HD no longer displays the embedded album art in the file icon
Despite this the music file seems to have the artwork attached to it when launched in the mentioned music software.
I have recently upgraded from leopard to snow leopard + the latest Itunes. Could it be a problem with preview? I really don't know what's going on, if my art really is embedded or what to do.
Hope You Can Help!
Thanks

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