Issues with Album Art

So I decided to try iTunes Match the other day and after a very simple switch over on my iPhone, I thought everything was done and working properly.
Unfortunately, when I went to play music on the phone, none of the album artwork was showing up. Upon further inspection, it seems that only the first track of an album has cover art, but the rest of the songs are lacking. So, if one were to look at the albums listing or cover flow, things would look fine, when really I'm missing nearly all of the album artwork. There are also a handful of albums in which the cover art is completely missing, but considering that these tracks were rips, I'm not surprised nor am I that concerned.
Can anyone explain why all of these albums, even one that were puchase from iTunes, only have album art on the first song and no others?
Thanks

Ah! Got it!
After posting on here last night I kept fiddling around with things and finally went to bed. Got up this morning and suddenly was able to copy/paste artwork in. I played around with several things, but I think the one that made the difference was under the Advanced drop down menu on iTunes. Select "Get Album Artwork" and run it. This fixed some of the albums, but not all of them.
From there I went to the albums that weren't fixed and was able to highlight a song in iTunes and bring up the info (Control+I, or it's on the right-click menu). Before, the Artwork tab was available on only the first song, now it was available on all of the tracks. Only the first track had the artwork in it though. I just clicked the artwork on Track 1, click the Next button below (taking you to Track 2). You'll notice the space is blank, just click Control-V (paste) and it appears. This is tedious, because you have to do it for every album, every song, but it gets the job done.
If this doesn't work for you let me know, I'll try and remember what other steps I did other than Get Album Artwork, but that would seem like the most logical one.
PS- Go Buckeyes, O-H!

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