Album art shows up as black square

Hello all. I'm having an issue with album art on my new itouch. I've purchased albums directly from the itunes store. The first couple of days everytihg was fine, I have albums sync'd from my itouch to my itunes program on my computer. Now for some reason, album art does not show up on the itouch (where it did before). On my computer, i can see it just fine in itunes- on the itouch it shows as a black screen on album view, or when scrolling albums. It's only happening with a couple of them, but pretty annoying. I dont even get the square with the question mark when artwork is unknown or cannot be found. It's as if there is no cover. Any help would be great. Thanks.

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Hi,
When I view my music collection in "album" view in itunes 11 many of the albums I have are using the same cover art, ie the album art from a single album is being incorrectly repeated across multiple albums.
This is not the case for all my albums as some have the correct album art showing.
In cases of albums were the incorrect artowrk shows in "album" view if I then go into "song" view and select the first song in the album and go into "get info" and then "Artwork" I can see that the incorrect album cover is showing. And this is the album art that is also used in the album view in itunes.
However, if I look at the second, or sometimes the third song in the album in "get info" "artwork" the correct artwork is actually showing.
So it looks like somehow itunes has taken one randon album cover and applied it to the first song of many of my albums, but left the correct artwork for the remaining songs of an album.
So the correct artwork is still "there" but it is only applied to the second and following songs of an album.
I have hundreds of albums in tiunes and am hoping for a slick way to fix this. As slick as Apples advertising. I would prefer not to have to have to spend a weekend moving files around so simple is good.
I have tried to delete all the cover art files and the get artwork again but same thing happens.
May thanks in advance.

Thanks for you help turingtest2.
I have searced for that file and I get it twice in the same folder. one of the files has a date stamp appended to it 2013-01-25 (todays date).
I copied both files to another folder and moved the album artwork folder to the same folder.
I then restarted itunes. I did not have to request any artwork and the original artwork was still there (incorrectly). It did not seem like anything was downloaded as itunes opened quick and when i selected album view it went to there without delay automatically with the artwork there.
The album artwork folder was recreated in the itunes folder.
I did a search for the *.itc files and it seems the old moved album artwork folder contained may more *.itc files than were recreated in "recreated" album artwork folder. Not sure if that means anything.
Hmmm.

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