Cover flow jams a lot

cover flow jams when I move the albums although the artwork's size isn't big

Nah, just looks like it got squished way up top and the division line part you hover over to drag/pull it back down is partially hidden, try hovering over the middle portion right underneath the squished cover flow division (there's a small white horizontal line, i'm guessing that's ballparking it) until you get the double-arrows and drag it back down.
If not I think you can trash a small preferences file, that might restore the window size, not sure how it would work on your system, but it should be fine.

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