Automatic ipod album art import?

I have a ton of songs (over 30GB worth) already on my ipod without artwork, because at the time I loaded them on my version of iTunes did not yet have the "get album artwork" functionality...
Now that the new version of iTunes does, however, I've found that you cannot update the album art automatically on the iPod, but I don't understand why not?
I've read other places that this is because "apple is trying to protect getting art for music you did not buy or acquired illegally" BUT I think that is bogus/ludicrous because nearly all the music on my ipod is ripped from CDs I own, so there's no reason I shouldn't be able to get artwork for them if I want to...
So, is there a way to get album art imported onto the ipod automatically, instead of doing it manually by downloading individual albums and then dragging it into the art window in iTunes? Seeing as I have almost 40GB of tunes this would take about 10 years that I don't want to waste. Any third part programs or pug-ins to help with this?
Thanks,
William
Macbook Pro   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   60GB iPod video/color

i've downloaded a few manually and they do show on the ipod.
anyway, is there really no other application that can help with this?
i UNDERSTAND that itunes cannot do this...i'm asking about anything else out there that could help. it seems so stupid that itunes doesn't have this function...even for simplicity sake, if people forgot to put artwork on files in the beginning and then wanted to add them later...

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