ITunes artwork lost to Screen Saver

Since updating to Mac OS 10.5.7 and iTunes 8.2 (and 8.2.1) on my Power PC G5, the Screen Saver app can no longer find or display the iTunes artwork. It says not artwork can be found, even though there is tons of artwork in my library - - and I see them as I play songs in iTunes.
Anyone have a fix for this - ?

Further info ... it appears to be working when see the small window demo within the System Prefs app, but when quitting out it does not work on the full screen.

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11-10-13 2:13:18.304 AM [0x0-0x4f04f].com.apple.systempreferences: System Preferences(540,0x7fff77286960) malloc: auto malloc[540]: attempted to remove unregistered weak referrer 0x102021a10
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So it turned out that the cause of the problem wasn't as complicated as I thought...
I had a few songs that were not added to the iTunes library, instead referenced from other locations on my hard drive.
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