ITunes Genre Thumbnails????

Hi,
I've created a few custom thumbnails for my iTunes Genre view.
In the Movie section, I have a two genres - Music and Musicals - each with separate Genre Thumbnails
But iTunes will not let me use both thumbnails.
It keeps "reading" Musicals as just Music, and just uses the Music thumbnail.
Any ideas how to correct this?
Cheers

Hi,
I figured out how to get iTunes to distinguish between similar genre names.
I added " <key>exactStringMatch</key><true/> " to each Music related genre in Video in the genre plist.
This allows iTunes to uses all three different Thumbnail artworks for Music in TV, Music in Movies and Musicals in Movies.
However, it does not help with allowing iTunes to use two different thumbnails for IRISH HISTORY and IRISH MUSIC.
Any ideas?

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(http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12603989&#12603989)
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