Automatic artwork embedding in 7.6.1 (?)

When iT first added the automatic artwork feature (in 7.0) I noticed that it attached the artwork as far as the program on the hard drive was concerned, but NOT in terms of embedding the artwork into the file itself.
in other words, when you'd play a track in iT, you would see the art, but NOT when you transferred that same track to your iPod.
a good way around this is Doug Adams's excellent script "embed artwork," which I heartily recommend, along with many others on Doug's iT scripts site.
However, now trying iT 7.6.1 on a Leopard Mac Pro, I am not sure what it's doing - it's adding art from the Apple store as before, but, when I put them on my iPod it looks like the art is going with it, even in cases when I did not run the script ....
at least this seems to be what's happening! If so, great! Will test it further.
Does anybody know anything about this? It would save me some labor if I didn't have to run the script...
w

I read the PDF file on this script...I'm not exactly sure what it's purpose is. The file states:
"Select some tracks. If downloaded artwork is available, it will be embedded in each track's file.
iTunes 7 by default stores downloaded album artwork in a separate "Album Artwork" folder in ~/
Music/iTunes. This script will re-apply the artwork data to the selected track's files."
Not sure why one would need to reapply the artwork to "selected tracks." Not sure why one would want to embed art if they didn't have to and increase the file size. I can't figure that out.
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