Duplicated, triplicated album art

My itunes library consists of itunes purchases, CD rips, and P2P downloads. When looking at the coverflow or album art view, some of the songs from the same album have artwork for each song. So If I have 2 songs from an album I will have 2 instances of that album art in album art view. How do I fix this?

I'm with the last poster on this one - this is ANNOYING
For some reason you end up with multiple albums of the same album in coverflow. If you select the cover it will highlight one song in your library, the other image (in the case of duplicates) is associated (usually) with all other instances of that album in your library. If you check the album art for the one song, using get info, you will often find nothing - which suggests that the album art (and this happens with that art downloaded by iTunes when you already have the correct art in place) is associated with some tag found elsewhere, i.e. outside the iTunes interface/access.
I have "selected all" tracks, renamed and confirmed album, artist, track, year etc (you have to be quite careful as even an errant "space" trailing in a name will generate a second album of course) but to no avail - again, suggesting that their is a different IDE tag associated with this one "duplicate" album cover which is NOT the title, year, etc (the usual difference problems).
I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to remedy this...

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