Impossible to linked some illustrations artwork at their albums in iTunes

Hi,
Here is my problem :
For some album I have copied in my iTunes Library, I don't succeed to link an illustration.
I try different procedures (drag and drop, getting more informations, copying the picture on the hard disk,...) but when iTunes proceeds to the updating of it's library, it'slike it "forgets" the last file of the album and so I have no illustration available for this album.
The problem is that happens from time to time without, so far I know, any logical reason. During the same session, iTunes will automatically download some covers, allow that I manually add some other one and have this problem with a few other.
Does someone know how to fix this problem
Thanks a lot
PS I hope my English will be understandable
iMac intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)
iMac intel Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hey, sorry to leave ya hangin', but it was a long weekend . . .
Anyway -
I think I see your point of confusion here: you were trying to change the artwork from your page in the iTunes Store, correct? (Hence: . . .+instructions don't even require me to log in+. . .) My friend, this is not done from your iTunes Store listing, okay? The steps that I have laid out in previous posts are done way before your podcast ever shows up in the store.
Let's walk through it step by step:
1. You record a podcast onto your computer.
2. You edit the audio for speaking errors, format the bit rate, etc.
}}}}Right now, your podcast is just a file, sitting on your computer. It hasn't hit the web yet, and you *have not* updated your XML file.{{{{
3. You take the file that is sitting on your hard drive, and drag it into iTunes.
4. You follow the steps for changing artwork that I have given previously.
5. You upload your podcast file to a server where people can download it.
6. You update your podcast feed/XML.
See, the thing is, *no one* can change the files from the Store. That is how no spammers are able to access anything. The changes are made to the file before you upload it. And thus, when people download your file, they are getting your podcast and +the artwork that you attached to your podcast+.
Hope this clears things up for you -- let me know if it doesn't.
Peach
P.S. Peach is not a "he."

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