Artwork not copying from iTunes to iPod

I've spent a TON of time copying artwork to some of the MP3's that aren't available in iTunes, and copied those songs over to my 30GB Video iPod. The thing is that the artwork isn't following the songs over. From my iPod I then have to manually find the cover on the internet, download it, and insert it into the individual albums, which takes a heckuva long time.
I've restored my iPod, but it still does the same thing.
Am I missing something or is anyone else having the same problem?

is there artwork for every song? like make sure they all have one, for EACH individual song, because mine didnt have all of them and it showed that it did, so i went through every song and made sure it had an artwork in the bottom left hand corner. it took a while, but im pretty sure thats the only way to do it. if this doesnt work, then i'm out of ideas...sorry

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