Finder/iTunes 9 not adding Covers Properly

Moving this Thread over from another section: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2172551
I have just added several albums into iTunes, some of which I had to add the cover manually, others (most of them) which iTunes downloaded and added itself. When I open those folder with those albums in finder and they don't seem to be adding covers to most of those albums. Only the last several albums I added into iTunes have the covers in finder.
I then looked at several other albums some in mp3, some in m4a, all of which have covers in iTunes and while a nice chunk of them had their covers, some of them different (didn't matter if they were mp3 or m4a).
All but the albums I checked, sans the ones I just added, had covers and worked with 10.5 and iTunes 8 in both iTunes and Finder.
Mason Sklut said:
When you are adding the album covers are you adding it via the artwork viewer in the iTunes sidebar?
Try using the song information window and adding it that way (right-click on song > *Get Info* > Artwork tab).
I replyed:
I've tried both.
AND:
The weird thing is I just tried removed the cover of one of the albums iTunes downloaded and added it again via the method that you suggested and it worked for the first 10 of the 11 songs in the album. When I tried it again on another album, it doesn't seem to be working.
I really don't know what to do with this.

First, I'm not sure if this is an iTunes bug, or Finder bug. Because even when I did have the issue, if I copied one of the tracks with missing artwork elsewhere on my Mac, the artwork would show fine in Finder. So it seems to be more of an issue with Finder within the iTunes music folder.
Really weird thing I found afterwards. Adding album art seems to work fine, and correctly, as long as you don't have any Finder windows open. If you keep all Finder windows closed while you add artwork.....Finder then displays the art correctly afterwards.
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