Getting Album Artwork from Apple.

Ok, there is a feature on iTunes 7.5 (Not sure about others) That allows you to send music without Artwork to Apple. When you click that, you get this message:
"Information about songs with missing artwork will be sent to Apple. Apple does not keep any information related to the contents of your music library."
My question: Does that mean they're just gonna send you the artwork, and then ditch your "queries" or does that mean that they're gonna erase your library?
Sorry if this is a horribly obvious answer - I'm new to using iTunes, and therefore dealing with Apple.
Anyway, thanks in advance!

Does anyone know?

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