Album artwork incorrect on ipod problem

Hello
I've got a 60GB iPod video and have never had a problem with it until recently which may or may not coincide with the upgrade to iTunes 7....
For some reason now on the iPod some album artwork is showing up incorrectly, for instance purchased music is showing album artwork for subscribed podcasts. However it's not just purchased music it's affecting all my music and it's driving me mad!
Can anyone assist? I've already had a search of the forums and am not overly keen on rolling back to a previous version of iTunes.
Cheers
Matt
HP Pavilion t360uk Windows XP 60GB iPod video black & Bose sounddock

I've got the 30 gb video and i'm having the same problem...the album artwork is correct on iTunes, but it's showing a totally different album than the one playing on my iPod...it's driving me crazy as well.
Does anyone know what to do about this?

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