Album art only shows sometimes

I put art in itunes for several albums, and it shows up fine in itunes, but on my ipod it only shows up sometimes. For instance, one album, the first 4 songs the art does not show up, but on song 5 it appears, not 6, but on 7 and 8...etc. Other albums it does not show art at all, and a few it shows for the entire album. Any ideas what is going on?

I have the same problem. I just bought a 80GB Video ipod a couple of weeks ago. I have the newest version of itunes. I spent hours getting all the artwork on the itunes, synched my ipod and it all worked fine and then all of a sudden after my last synch (yesterday and after the last update) the artwork is all messed up. It displays the wrong artwork for the song and artist I pick. And when I click on the artwork (from my ipod) it shows a different album/artist artwork. This is really frustrating considering I put so much time in to make sure that all the albums had the correct artwork and that they were properly organized. Anybody have any solutions or been having the same problem?

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