Bootcamp iTunes Issues (Album Artwork)

Hey folks!
I have recently setup Windows XP as a second partition on my computer. I've been using iTunes for quite some time now, and have all my Music as well as my iTunes Library (database) file stored in my /Users/username/iTunes directory in OS X.
There are songs which I have in my iTunes library (viewing through OS X) that have album artwork. To obtain these files, I selected all of them, right-clicked and selected "Get Album Artwork". A couple seconds later I see all the artwork - great!
So I switch over to my Windows XP partition and use MacDrive to read my HFS partition (The installation location for Mac OS X, and also houses my iTunes library and songs as mentioned above). I press Shift while launching iTunes and manually select the iTunes library on the other partition (so I can use the same library either on Windows or OS X). It takes a few moments saying "Updating iTunes Library" (or something to this effect). After it finishes, all appears well. All songs seem to be accounted for, and everything seems the same as when I used iTunes in Mac OS X - except Album Artwork.
Excluding songs which have album artwork embeded in them (IE iTunes store purchases), all the songs which I have right-clicked and selected "Get album artwork" in the past have lost their album artwork. Whenever I switch between Mac OS X and Windows when launching iTunes, all these songs loose their album artwork.
In other words, say I was in iTunes (Windows) and selected Weezer's album "Pinkerton". This album does not currently have any album artwork. I right click all it's songs and select "Get Album Artwork". Bam! I see all the album artwork. Now, I restart my Mac and go into Mac OS X. When I open iTunes, I will briefly see the "Updating iTunes Library" and it will finish. When I select the "Pinkerton" album, there is no artwork associated with it. This also happens the other way around (Adding artwork in OS X and launching iTunes in windows - album artwork is not there).
This is driving me absolutely mad!
I feel I am so close, but yet so far. I can confirm that the "Album Artwork" folder is still in the same directory as the iTunes Music Library (database) file, regardless of the operating system I am using. Also, this folder's size never seems to change. I don't know what's causing this, but each time I switch from Mac OS X to Windows either OS resets this information.
Any suggestions? Help would be oh-so-much appreciated
Cheers,
Evan

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