I Suddenly Cannot Manually Add Artwork To Songs (??)

I'm running itunes 10.5.2.11 on a Toshiba NB505 Netbook running Windows 7 Starter. Everything has been working fine. Until last night when suddenly I am unable to manually add artwork. I usually click and drag from amazon.com. But I also tried copying the image and pasting it. It looks like it's been added, but when I exit it's not there.
The last time i tried it, it actually displayed the "updating..." message for each song on the album, but again it is not displaying. I have tried adding different artwork to different albums. I also shut everything down and restarted the machine. Same thing. It just suddenly is broken.
Any ideas?

Ok I know more. The two discs I was adding artwork to had a small number of tracks. One had 2 and the other had 3. I believe this is why the artwork was not showing.
I selected the "Always Show Artwork" option, and the artwork displays fine. But of course all the tracks that don't have artwork are now displaying the empty generic artwork placeholder.
Is there another option ?

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