ITunes 7 Album Art headaches

While I enjoy the improvements on iTunes (gapless tracks, Download art,and music/video seperation all nice features!), the art iTunes provides isn't as nice as some of what's online, and for whatever reason, iTunes 7 will NOT permit me to "Shift-Click" all the songs on an album and drag one image in the art box... I have to add 3rd party art to an album ONE SONG AT A TIME!!! Even if I try copying and pasting! This is a major step back functionality-wise...
I am assuming this is a bug that will be fixed, but if its some scheme to force me to stick to iTunes' art catalog, I call bull doodie on that!

All my albums are old an obscure (even from LPs). So I HAVE to make them all by scratch. Shift-selecting all songs in an album works for me. Make sure you are in the album window. Click on song one (do not let it play) then shift click on the last song of the album. Now hit Command-I. You should now be able to drag and drop the art onto the art box.

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