Cover Flow Artwork for Albums is Dysfunctional

Artwork on Cover Flow view displays as a jumbled plaid-like distorted picture. I tried reinstalling and repairing, but that has not solved the issue. Anyone know of a fix for this? Running on Windows XP.

I've had this problem for a while now & finally figured out is was a problem with a driver, that I'd updated.
My graphics are controlled by an SiS Mirage Graphics chipset and when I update the driver it screws up cover view. I rolled back the driver and that fixed it.
Driver that works okay is 6.14.10.3830.

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