Breaking Album Artwork!

A few days ago I wrote about garbling of iTunes on my Mac mini.
Well I might be a step closer to finding out why but have not been able to prevent it. I have managed to fix the problem but under certain conditions it will break again...permanently.
Mission:
I began to suspect that the problem was not caused by either hardware or the application. Instead that the problem was in the Library itself. So I hooked up an external drive to the Mac that has the iTunes problem and pointed iTunes to the backup copy of iTunes on the external drive. (In this case I used Terminal to create a symbolic link.) And sure enough iTunes worked like a charm. Until..
Problem:
Until I turned on the Visualizer! Then iTunes will break again and becomes garbled. And there is nothing else I can do except to trash the broken library and re-import a new one from backup.
Why Album Artwork
I used FileMerge to compare the two Libraries and needless to say it cannot be reliably done because they are almost all Data, but I was able to see that there were Added directories in the Album Artwork of the broken Library. Being that they are Added, I can't tell what's different about them other than that they are new.
What Next?
I have no idea what to do next. The Visualizer runs fine on at least one other Mac (eMac 1.25G) with the exact same Library. Does anyone have any ideas?
Patrick

Seems like noone has the answer about corrupted files - iTune creates a real mess in organising music files you have collected - I believe it is iTune the cause of all corruption problem with your music folder (iTune shoud never organise anything on a windows platform) - if you have found a solution to access the corrupted folder and recover all files I am interested - then adios iTune - don't want to use it anymore - liked it - now despise it
Bad iTune

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