Artwork thumbnails corrupted

Hi,
Things seem to have been okay so far with my ipod classice and itunes 7.7. i say okay because this software is far from good. However last night for some reason it was supposed to do a minor update ie 50 tracks, but instead it decided to do a >1000 track update.
Grrr, not only did this take ages, and i have no idea why it needed to. Anyway i let it get on with it. Now when i scan through my albums on the ipod a significant number of the small cover art pics look like random coloured pixels, very odd.
When you open the album and play a track some show the correct coverart and some show nothing???
Whats going on? how can i fix this?
The problem being when you check the ipod in itunes it shows the larger image not the thumbnail and it appears to be okay.
Any help really appreciated. Thanks
Matt

Ugh, you are porbably going to have to uncheck the "sync artowkr to ipod" option. let it update, and then make the change ot put it back to synicning artwork.
There is a new v7.1.1 iTunes that has fixed some folks problems - don't know if you're up to trying that!

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