Album art synching incorrectly on new computer

I recently moved my iTunes library to a new computer. After some initial issues, I had iTunes loaded to my satisfaction. By this I mean that all of my songs were there, and most of my album covers were there (some were there after reloading the library, and others were there after using the menu option to "get album artwork"). I have now been in and out of iTunes several times, and the artwork there looks good. I then synched to my device (the first one I tried was my iPhone 4S). When synching for the first time, since this was a new computer for the device, iTunes asked me if I wanted to replace the tunes based on the contents of the new iTunes library location, and I responded in the affirmative. The synch worked in terms of all of the requested music being there and associated with the correct albums and playlists, but the associated art work was all over the place - some was correct and some was incorrect. There was no logic to what artwork was associated with what album. I then resynched,and a couple of albums corrected but not many. I then tried the same process with my iPad, and the results were similar (interestingly, the associations were different, i.e. different artwork was associated with the albums). Again, some albums were correct and others weren't. The information on iTunes is still correct (right art with every album).
How can I correct this? I want to get it correct before synching with other devices (my iTouch and my old "master" iPod -- an 80 gig model which has all of my tunes which is now relegated to being a master backup device).
Thanks for any solutions/suggestions, etc.

Your iPod is designed to sync with only one iTunes library at a time.  It will recognize the iTunes library on the PC as a new library.  If you sync the iPod with this new library, all content will be erased from the iPod and replaced with what is in the new library.  So what you will want to do is copy everything from the iPod to your new iTunes library on your PC first.
See this excellent user tip from another forum member turingtest2 outlining the different methods and software available to help you copy content from your iPod back to your PC and into iTunes.
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