Genius frozen and some artwork missing!?

Hello
I have just migrated my itunes library to a laptop from an old PC, and everything is fine, except for 2 things;
Some artwork (maybe 10%) has vanished, even though it was there on the old machine. Any tips for finding it?
But more weirdly, I have tried turning on Genius and it gets about halfway and comes to a grinding halt (during the gathering info about your library stage). Itunes is using 50-55% of CPU but nothing is happening within the program...
I have a very large library, but it seems odd that it should get half way quite fast and then do nothing at all (now about 6 hours and counting...)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Cheers
Simon

I have the same problem. I added artwork manually to all the songs I burned from my CD's. They were all working fine until one day about 40% of them won't display anymore on my iPod, but they are visible when looking at the song through iTunes to the iPod while connected.
I have done searches on this topic and have concluded that Apple has no idea what is wrong, what causes it, or how to fix it. There are many, many, many unanswered questions about this topic.
People say to deselect the display options via iTunes then reselect it. But why? That does not work. And I think it assumes that everyone is synching 100% of their songs between iPod and iTunes (I don't, because I don't want many of those songs on my iTunes, but want them on my iPod).
I would really like to know the root cause and have a reliable solution from someone. The artwork is on the iPod, but it just does not display it anymore on 40% of my songs.
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