Copying album art from one computer to another

I downloaded album artwork on my work computer and now I would like to copy it to my home computer (no internet connection). In the iTunes folder there is a folder called "Album Artwork."
Inside of it there is a "Download folder" with lots of folders with numbers on them, such as, "OO ," "01," etc.
My concern is that since these are generic titles for folders, I may already have folders like this with the same names in my "Album Artwork" folder on my home computer and it may overwrite them. What is the best way to do this?
Thanks!
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

this may be a dumb answer but have you guys tried the 'get album artwork' feature under the 'advanced' selection from the menu? oh wait. no internet connection. how do i delete my dumb answer?

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