Cover artwork weirdness

Not sure if this is related to iTunes 7, but recently my cover art started acting strange.
The picture that normally displays to the left of the song details displays properly for some songs, but not at all for others.
When it doesn't display, the song info appears aligned to the left of the screen... not centered, as when there is no artwork for a song. Hitting the center button shows that the artwork DOES exist for these songs.
Let me reiterate, this only happens for some songs. Others are fine.
I've tried resetting the ipod, which had no affect. Has anyone else had this problem?

I have had similar problems. It's not only you.
I think it is actually a problem with the gracenote database.
For instance, I have a Soundtrack Album where 25% of the albuum uses the correct artwork and the remaining 75% uses the wrong movie.
I also have problems when ripping a CD single where every single I try to rip get's labelled as the 1st single I ripped, so I have to rename everything manually.
You can manually change the artwork, but yes it is a pain.
I know, not much help, but at least you know you are not alone!!!

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