ITunes Artwork screensaver can't find my iTunes artwork

My ~/Music/iTunes folder has my itunes library file and a copy; and an album artwork folder; something must be labeled wrong somewhere? My itunes artwork folder contains folders with random numbers (.itc files); but no actual artwork. Yet my itunes does have artwork and is working fine...
what must I do to get the iTunes Artwork screensaver working?
thanks;-)

This is a problem I am having as well. If I find the solution, I'll post back what I did to fix it.

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