Copy from MAC to PC missing artwork

I have a macbook pro and a vista PC desktop. on my mac, my itunes is exactly how I want it, so i removed all music from my music folder on my pc and copied my itunes folder from the mac, to my network drive, to my pc. i noticed on the pc that the actual artists folders needed to be in the music directly, not in itunes, so i now have all the artist folders in music/ on the PC. there is also an itunes folder in there that has the library and other files from the mac. when i open itunes on the pc, it looks great. i got all my music, my ratings, and my playlists. however, i don't have all the album art. on the mac, the structure is music/itunes/album artwork and on the pc it's the same. it looks like some of the artwork is showing up now, but only a few items and there's nothing in itunes that's telling me it's getting the artwork. is this the right location for the album artwork folder on the PC and will itunes get it all if I leave it open????
secondly, i'm sorta sick of managing multiple computers with the same music libary and ratings. it's annoying as all ****. i am going to get the time capsule network drive to store all my music there. now do i do that?? i move my itunes music folder there and then how does itunes on each pc know to use that folder for current music and when adding music, and will i then be able to rate songs and create playlists on any computer and they will show up on all??
sorry for the long explanations. thanks in advance to anyone who can shed some light for me.

There should be no problem in using files saved to disk with a MAC and with a Windows machine. Equally LR itself is happy to use the same catalog on both machines, I do it every day. So perhaps you could describe a little more what is happening. Are you getting an error message when trying to read a file? Does your PC recognise the external drive when it is connected? Have you tried opening the actual catalog on both machines?

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