Ipod nano 4g - wrong cover art appearing

I manually transfer music and youtube videos to my ipod nano 4g from Windows XP (home) and Windows 7 (office) computers. I have iTunes handle podcasts that I follow (about a dozen). Both machines are kept current with OS updates and iTunes updates.
Lately, however, it seems something about the ipod memory has been corrupted, because most of the "cover art" on the podcasts have become fouled up. For example, 7 or 8 different podcasts now show a still frame from an entirely different podcast as their cover art.
This has extended itself to a number of music files also ... enough that it's bothersome... Do I just need to reformat the lot and recopy them over? I'm curious how it happened, but I'd also like to know how to correct it... and most importantly, how to keep it from occurring again in the future.
Thank you for any help you can offer!
James

This problem has happened to me. This is usually caused by two albums having the same description like "Greatest Hits". Right mouse click on a song you know has a bad art cover and look at the Get Info tab. Right mouse click on a song that is on the art cover causing the problem and also look at the Get Info tab. Compare the two. If the album description or any of those fields are the same you need to make them unique. Make sure you change all the songs on the album the same way. Next time you synch your album art will properly be displayed.

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