Album Artwork Disappearing / Can't be updated.

Hello All,
I recently noticed that my songs have been slowly losing their artwork. Upon further inspection (and forum searching), I've found that this problem has happened to many people.
For the songs with the missing album artwork, I cannot update the songs with new artwork (from both the popup and get info-> album artwork) views. It acts as though iTunes cannot write to the file. I have tried changing the ID3 tag from version 2.4 to 2.3; again, with no success.
I checked the permissions on the file (originally 644) and changed them to a whopping 666; but still, no writes by iTunes.
Does anyone have any other information as to what is going on here? My iTunes version is 7.4.2(4). Reloading my library is not a plausible solution.

I'm still experiencing the album artwork disappearing, however I have figured out a work-around for songs that you cannot 're-add' album artwork to:
1) Try re-adding the song first (alt-click on song, click 'get info', click 'show in finder', then drag back into library).
2) If that doesn't work, re-converting the music (advanced -> convert selection to MP3) should properly re-encode the file (use lossless compression, otherwise your mp3 will deteriorate).

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