ITunes 7.6 Downloaded Album Art Disappears

I've been using iTunes 7.6 since its release date. Today when I opened iTunes, all of the album art added through the "Get Album Artwork" feature of iTunes was missing (I could still see manually added artwork). I closed iTunes, rebooted Windows, opened iTunes and nothing had changed. Comparing "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\Album Artwork" with my backup iTunes folder showed they were the same size... so the files were still there. Interestingly, a folder named "Album Artwork" had been created in "C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music".
Does anyone know what is going on here? I was able to run "Get Album Artwork" and get back most of the artwork... but with 10,000+ songs this took a while, and I don't want to do it again...
Message was edited by: Amp300 to correct a spelling error.

Update: Also, some of the dividing panes and scroll bars have a corrupt look. Certainly not right.
Have now re-installed 7.6.1 with no luck.

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