ITunes 11 lost A LOT of my cover art.

A lof of my album art has gone missing and iTunes is unable to replace it. I click download album art and nothing happens. Very frustrating. Booo.

This is the second major blunder from Apple re cover art.  Some years ago when I was updating cover art by selecting multiple songs from albums, iTunes randomly corrupted the actual music files and caused the first 1 - 8 seconds of some songs to repeat.  That issue has never been resolved (you can find it on non-Apple forums), and I still have this occur for some songs that I haven't had time to re-burn from CD.  Now I have lost hours and hours of work updating cover art.  Someone suggested that the artwork still exists in cover flow.  Maybe, but it is gone from the meta data (ie you can't see it in "Info > Artwork").  I am going to try to download an ealier version of iTunes and revert to an ealier version of my library to restore the artwork. It would be very much appreciated if an Apple engineer could fix this.

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