IPod Album Art Mixup, Choppyness, Doesn't Sleep

I have a few questions about my new iPod 5.5G 80GB I was hoping to have cleared up. Some of these may simply be me doing something wrong on the iPod.
1/ When I'm scrolling through some podcasts on my iPod, as well as some music, I'll see the album art of another song, podcast, or video in it's album art part. As an example, I went to play CNET's Buzz out Loud and got the album art for Pirates of the Caribbean instead of the Buzz Out Loud logo. Is this a bug or something I'm doing wrong? How can I fix it?
2/ I've noticed that menu scrolling and some game play (Brick, specifically) is really choppy. Almost every five or ten seconds when playing Brick and having music playing in the background, the ball will freeze in mid air for a split second. It does this when I'm scrolling through my songs too... on my iPod 2g mini silver 4gb, I never had problems with this. It may be because of my amount of music, I'm not sure. It just won't go through all of the songs instantly. I have to wait a second for it to get to the next screen of songs, almost like it's having to think real hard to load a single bit of text.
3/ The last thing I'm having troubles with is that it won't sleep when I hold down the play button. Sometimes, it will, and sometimes it won't. Most of the time, it won't. I then have to do a hard restart to get it to sleep, because even selecting it in the menu won't put it to sleep.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Other than those three issues, I'm absolutely loving my iPod. It's a huge step up from my iPod mini!

I have the same problem. I just bought a 80GB Video ipod a couple of weeks ago. I have the newest version of itunes. I spent hours getting all the artwork on the itunes, synched my ipod and it all worked fine and then all of a sudden after my last synch (yesterday and after the last update) the artwork is all messed up. It displays the wrong artwork for the song and artist I pick. And when I click on the artwork (from my ipod) it shows a different album/artist artwork. This is really frustrating considering I put so much time in to make sure that all the albums had the correct artwork and that they were properly organized. Anybody have any solutions or been having the same problem?
Deleting the artwork is not an option. It shows up fine in itunes but is all messed up on the ipod and it is almost every file if not every file. So deleting and reinstalling over 7,000 songs would take forever.

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