ITunes 11.1.2 Now Playing Window Hides, Not Visible

In iTunes 11.1.2 (the latest upgraded version to date) when I have iTunes open on my Mac (2012 Mac Mini) the 'now playing' window in grey at the top shows nothing while a song is playing. When I move my cursor to the 'dock area' below on my desktop the now playing info suddenly appears at the top, showing the song playing, shuffle icon, etc. As soon as my mouse leaves the dock area this now playing area becomes grey again (with the song still playing.) I've restarted my computer and iTunes a few times, etc. What's the problem?!

In addition to what you said: if you press Command L, the playing song will be selected.
I only get this problem when I'm playing the song from an apple script.

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This is odd.
It's not the case with all the albums that I've got
but in the view in iTunes where you can scroll
through album artwork the images appear, but for some
of them they don't appear in the 'Now playing'
window.
I can't even find where the images that I can see are
stored. When I do a Get-Info on the album/song there
is no artwork in the info pane, but it's there in
iTunes, just not in all places.
Music > iTunes > Album Artwork ?
I think new artwork goes here if downloaded by iTunes because if CoverFlow had to scan through all your tracks to find the embedded artwork it would slow it down too much.
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