I'm having cover art issues...

I love audiobooks, but I'm having issues with cover art showing up. When in "audiobooks" view in iTunes all of my cover art shows up, but when I switch to "authors" view some authors have cover art next to their names while others doesn't. I suppose I'm a little OCD but I really like having cover art next to the author's names.
I noticed this happened after I did a bit of editing so it may be my fault. Several of my audiobooks are series. For example, Christopher Paolini wrote the Inheritance Cycle which consists of Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr & Inheritance. I recently combined the files into one "album" while letting the track names differentiate between the individual books.
1 Eragon (Part 1).m4b
1 Eragon (Part 2).m4b
2 Eldest (Part 1).m4b
2 Eldest (Part 2).m4b
3 Brisngr (Part 1).m4b
3 Brisinger (Part 2).m4b
4 Inheritance (Part 1).m4b
4 Inheritance (Part 2).m4b
Each book has it's own cover art and when I send the whole series to my iPhone they show up as one audiobook "The Interitance Cycle" with the 8 files listed above being listed as tracks. When clicking on the individual files to play them, they display the cover art for the book they represent. Seemed like an easy way to consolidate my files until the cover art next to author names started disappearing in iTunes. Any help would be appreciated.

Well I'm here to own up. My dad was over today and he has an iPad 2 with iOS 7.1.1 and mine ran 6.1.2. Over the table both on my wifi I tried to call him on facetime and he tried to call me, in both cases it failed due to lost connection as previously discussed. He said they had used it to call my brother in england yesterday with no issue.
I bit the bullet and decided with extreme reluctance to do the upgrade. I did a full backup whilst downloading the update on my windows pc and after the sync I applied the update. Luckily for apple's sake the facetime connection now works both ways but I'm still left with this hideously atrocious UI color scheme. I can however report that i can see no noticable reduction in performance so far. As per suggested on some sites I disabled automatic downloads & updates and tweaked the accessibility settings to "reduce motion" and "increase contrast" including enabling button shapes and reducing white point. Everything seems to work fine and Thankfully I don'rt feel like I have a hobbled device. Clearly something between 7.0 and 7.1.1 has brought iPad 2 back up to speed so to speak.
Oh and I still hate you Apple, cheers.

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