Genius Mix Cover Artwork Spreading Like A Virus!

Hello, there.
I am using an iPod Touch 4g running iOS 4.3.3. This is syncing to a Windows 7 sp1 machine running iTunes 10.4.1.10. For some reason, every time I sync my iPod to my computer, the cover art used for Genius Mixes replaces some of the cover art on things like music and podcasts. I have tried a restore--the problem fixed itself for the first sync, then upon the next sync, the genius mix artwork is randomly scattered across my music library.
I am SUCH a perfectionist that this bothers me. I am also such a perfectionist that I KNOW that ALL of my music and podcasts have correctly assigned cover art in iTunes. Moreso, my iPad displays my media's images perfectly fine, no matter how many times I sync it.
What's fun is that the ones that aren't displaying correctly are USUALLY newly sync'd stuff. After that, it's completely random in both distribution and quantity.
I will post some example images below.
If I un-sync and re-sync the media, the problem rights itself... until the next sync, where it's back to square one. This is problematic simply because I have almost 13 gigs of media to be sync'd. This takes quite while to delete and resync.
From my always-spot-on, infallible hunches, I assume this to be a problem with the ever-buggy iTunes 10.4, or if my iPod's image cache is on the fritz or something. I'd much prefer the former.
Just looking for thoughts/input/confirmation, or a cure-all fix that doesn't involve the words "wait", "for", "an", and "update".
Thanks!
Image direct link [Dropbox, .png, 780k]: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8091145/TremorPage_iPod_Problem.png

Now that I've posted this, I'm noticing the "More Like This" sidebard up there. Glad to know that I'm not alone in this.

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Mixes as they appear on iTunes:
http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/9288/mix3h.jpg
Mixes as they appear on iPod:
http://img8.imageshack.us/i/mix1e.jpg/
http://img225.imageshack.us/i/mix2.png/
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