Iphone Album artwork scrambled, ok in itunes

The artwork on my iphone 3G recently became scrambled. It shows entirely different photos for albums that were ok before that. On itunes the artwork is ok, but no about of resetting or resynching is helping.
Any advice?

Hi,
I was having this problem on both my iPod Touch and brand new iPhone 4G. Specifically, a few albums showed the incorrect artwork, but many showed no artwork at all for individual songs, even though when the album list was displayed the correct artwork thumbnail appeared.
This advise TOTALLY RESOLVED the problem for me. This had stumped Apple phone tech support and the Genius Bar at my local Apple Store. Thanks a million!

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