Cannot Add Cover Art - Open Disabled

I have just add three CDs to my collection and scanned the covers as jpeg (using Image Capture).
In the properties of each song I double click on the empty cover art and see a 'file open' dialogue ... but navigating to the images displays them with the dialogue box but does not allow them to be selected.
Why?

Solved it ... but I was surprised by the basic bug in an Apple Application ....
iTunes was not recognising the JPEG filetype (!!!) that is the default on image capture.
I renamed the filetypes to JPG and it worked.
Is there something wrong with my installation of iTunes that it does not accept .JPEG ?
Is there some way of telling Image Capture to use the JPG suffix?
It really does not come on the 'it just work' reputation when something like this happens !
Thanks.

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