Can't play music or see artwork after iTunes redirect

I've just finished moving my iTunes folder from one external drive to another. I then deleted the library on the first drive, but I was not able to delete the Library.itl, Extras.itdb or Genius.itdb. I recovered them from the trash and saved them. I was running iTunes (now redirected) during the deletion. After the deletion, iTunes was still running fine until I closed and reopened it. The media, playlists and play counts are properly listed but the media wasn't located when clicked and there was no artwork. The files are all on the new drive, along with the artwork. I've succeeded in redirecting it such that SOME media now plays and SOME artwork shows, but not most. Oddly, for the albums that don't show artwork on the main icon, they do show it in the "now playing" bar at the top of the screen.
How can I redirect to all the media files and artwork properly? Nothing essential was deleted I know of. (Or presumably connecting to the media would accomplish both?) If it matters, within the iTunes folder I have iTunes Media folder, Album Artwork folder, Previous iTunes Libraries folder, Extras.itdb, Genius.itdb and Library.xml. Inside the iTunes Media folder, there's the Library itl. file. I also was prompted to reorganize the folder to maintain the "Keep iTunes Media folder organized" so I did that.
UPDATE: I think I may have worked out why certain media wasn't playing, but the artwork problem remains and is unrelated. Songs will play, the art will show in the folder as part of the metadata, will show in the top iTunes bar, but not on the main icon in the library. Any ideas about this?
Thanks for any help. Have done this before without any problems.

What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391
What do you have on the drive? The whole iTunes folder with all its subfolders and collection of library files, or just media? All your business about "redirecting" is a method for moving only media and not all the other library files which is what gives it the structure you see in the iTunes application. We need to know where exactly you are right now. I have provided those instruction hundreds if not thousands of times to people and the only time they do not work is when somebody has something non-standard with their library or confuses moving media with their "library". Just as a city library is more than a pile of books in an empty lot, an iTunes library is more than just media files.

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