Album art shows up as tiny small black square in iTunes 10.5.1.42

I had quite a bit of music that didn't have any album artwork for so I (painstakingly) spent a few hours to fix it i.e. used MPTagThat to look up artwork and meta tag info online.
But when I went to iTunes, all that artwork ended up as a small black square. I don't get why.
The artwork seems fine in WIndows Explorer. I click on a song, and there it is. The way I picked it. Yet when I go to iTunes, it's that same annoying black square.
Anyone knwo how I can fix this? I have something like 400 songs whose artwork I had to look up. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this without going through each and every song?

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