Manually managed artwork won't show on ipod

hi! this is my post because i don't really know how to solve this problem.
i have the last version of itunes under windows xp pro, using a 30gb 5G ipod video. before installing the new itunes (before having the games support) when i managed the artwork i only had to drag'n'drop the image file on the info window or into the little artwork screen and itunes copied the artwork inside the music file (i know because when i copy the mp3 from the ipod to PC media player showed artwork correctly).
so now, when i try to put any artwork on the ipod, it will only show on itunes. there's no evidence that itunes is changing ID tags to add the artwork inside the mp3's. so when i disconnect ipod from the PC, there's no artwork relationed with the album/song in the ipod.
the only way i can currently put artwork in the ipod is transferring the mp3 to itunes library, then from library to ipod and only if itunes previously has found the artwork itself.... and if i do so, then artwork will show on the ipod but not on itunes.... that's weird.
it's too much work for nothing, i like to manage artwork myself, because maybe i'm having some mp3 that are not any "official" album (like class recordings or something like that) and there's no way that itunes can find any artwork for these files (anyway, i don't like to use itunes as music software cause it's too slow with windows, so i don't want to have all my songs listed on itunes library).
sooooooo.... is there any way to insert artwork inside the ID tags with itunes as we could do it with the old itunes? i hope there is, it's driving me crazy and currently i don't really know which songs have artwork and which don't. i had a very neat and accured artwork database before that ** itunes update T_T
thanks you so much in advance!!
Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1425 Windows XP Pro

Strangely I was able to find help myself. I checked one box under the settings that said something like "show album artwork". Strange because it was unchecked before, I had never checked it myself and previously all the artwork was visible properly...
When I clicked that checkbox, to my horror iTunes said something to the effect of "Deleting artwork from 'iPod'". After that it went for a long time into a "Optimizing artwork for 'iPod'" and after that wait all the artwork is shown properly. I wonder what that did...?

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