IPod Cover Art Question

I'm curious about some of the album cover art in my iPhone's iPod.
I've added a couple album covers manually that iTunes doesn't have. They look great in the Albums screen of the iPod in Cover Flow. However, when I go to play these albums, they don't show up on the Now Playing screen; I'm stuck with the generic iTunes image.
Anyone know why this is and how (if possible) to fix it? Does it occur with the iPhone 3G too?
Steven

yes it does still show up and it looks ridiculous taking up about 2/3 of the screen like that. not only that but in the new version of iTunes, it doesn't even give you the option to turn off album covers anymore, it's like mandatory now that they show up if there is a cover. that is so dumb, I don't know why they took away that option. extremely disappointing. I'm with you on the tag info, that was one of the reasons I upgraded because I used to have the 60Photo with the smaller screen.

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