ITunes movies duplicates artwork on films

Hi all,
This is driving me insane!
I have backed up my DVD's into iTunes using handbrake. The films themselves are all fine. My problem is the artwork. Each film has its own indidvidual artwork file which I can see when I "get info" on a specific film. My problem started when I tried to sort my films into collections. My example being that I have about 5 different Thomas the Tank Engine films (for my son). They now all show the artwork for 1 of the films as oppsed to their individual film artwork. I have tried deleting info out of the individual files but nothing happens? In fact some info like the sort name keeps coming back even if I have deleted it. I have a lot of seperate films that this has happen to like my styar wars collection and lord of the rings collection etc. Is there a simple fix for this so I can see the correct artwork for each film? Its really annoying when I use my Apple TV to play films.
Any help gratefully received.
Thanks
Chris

most of these items were downloaded from eihter iTunes or in the case of movies, imported into the app and then loading them to TV Series or Movies as appropriate. They were all fine until about two days ago when I did a sync. Then the artwork went haywire. I tried manualy removing and replacing the artwork in iTunes with the correct jpg's. and then re-sync. iTunes shows everything OK, but the iPad is the one with it all messed up.

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