ITunes 5.0.1 - lost all my album artwork

I used the automatic update tonight, and everything seemed to go fine but now I see that I'm without any of the artwork that I had downloaded. Where do I find this? And how do I make iTunes recognize it again?
Thanks for any help. Lisa
Also, just an FYI for people - back up all your music BEFORE upgrading to 5.0 - I lost all of my music when I upgraded from 4.9. Ultimately it was irrelevant b/c my hard drive was crashing and had to be replaced. Starting all over, everything is fine, but all the possible fixes on these sites couldn't find my old music again.

The artwork is stored in the music files. When your hard disk crashed and you lost your music, the artwork went with it.
Unless you have put the artwork back into your music files after the loss, it is gone. Sorry.
And yes people should always keep their stuff backed up.
Not just before doing an upgrade, but all the time because sometimes a disk can fail and give little warning.

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