Artwork missing on iPod after power interruption

hi all.
a nasty power interruption happened while my ipod is connected to the computer. now the pc restarted and my ipod disconnected however when i reviewed the songs, all the artwork is gone.
when i connected it back on the computer, i unchecked the display artwork on ipod button and nothing happened. so i checked it again to display album artwork on ipod and it displayed optimizing artwork for ipod which took about few mins. now when i restarted my ipod it has the artwork back.
prior to the problem, i still have about 1.2gb of free space, but when i checked display album artwok on ipod and after the optimization only 700 mb of free space was left.
how can i get the used space back? when i looked into the artwork folder in the ipod control of the folders hidden on ipod it has few artwork database files. would it be possible that the artwork database made another file for the new optimization i made and ate up space this time? has anyone encountered the same? pls your inputs. thnx.

thanks to your effort to answering my query. but restoring it will be the last thing that i'll have to do. as long as it plays music and videos.for me play counts are impt and if i restore it then i need to start paly count from scratch. if it's taken up a small space then i can bear with it in the meantime. i'll try to experiment things and find out how i can resolve it. thanks again.

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