ITunes 8.02 - Album Artwork Problem - white artwork

Hi. I was wondering if anyone had a solution to my problem. Ever since I downloaded itunes 8 (including updates) for practically all of my albums, the artwork appears blank white in the corner viewer and black in the grid viewer. I manually added most of my artwork awhile back and embedded .jpeg files into the .mp3/.m4a files. Now, when I scroll through an album, most songs have artwork that will appear white, or scrambled, and maybe one or two songs will properly display the artwork I added. I do not know how to fix this and would like to find a solution since I have spent way too long adding all of the artwork for it to just disappear.
So far, I have tried a solution I saw to delete and recreate my com.apple.iTunes.plist file as well as repairing my disk permissions in disk utility, both of which did not solve this problem. Most of my library is .m4a AAC files, and I have noticed downloading the artwork from the iTunes store seems to work, but often they do not have albums that I do, and the manual adding artwork method seems to only appear white now when I add it. If anyone can help me with this or offer suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

hi
try this
these people had the same problem and a few people fixed it
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1054525
says here that it means that your connection is invalid
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2237
Alex

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