Missing Album Art & Migrating To New Computer

I have an iPod mini (soon to be replaced by an iPod Classic) which I have set up on my 'old' XP laptop. In preparation for this new iPod I have added all my albums (previously ripped... all 36gb of them) to iTunes on my 'new' Vista laptop. These were ripped with Musicmatch (my older music) and in Windows Media Player (my newer music) with the vast majority having album art. With the addition of album art and coverflow to the iPod I am keen to get album art for ALL my mp3s. Unfortunately iTunes fails to recognise album art that has already been attached, insisting to use it's own... this in itself would be fine apart from the fact it will not find album art for most of my albums, even the ones that have art in Windows Media Player.
I have also followed the instructions for transferring all my ratings and playlists, however nothing has appeared in my new iTunes. Since buying my new laptop, my mp3 music collection has more than doubled and as iTunes and Vista weren't originally compatable, there was some time before I could install it. Adding these files to my iTunes library was easy enough but I still can't find a way to transfer my ratings & playlists. I have chosen to keep all my music on a dedicated external drive, could it be this change that is stopping my ratings etc being added?
Please, can someone help, If I have to start my ratings from scratch I will be rating forever!!!

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The music was matched perfect, just a few missing album covers were missing (I'm fussy that way)... after doing the little fix suggest by "Sansimeon" (notted below) they all came in perfect...I actually had my iPad on the iTunes Artist section and while I made the changes (I was doing that on my mac) the album covers poped up on the iPad, it was kind of cool! I'm easily amused
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Enjoy!
Correct Answer by Sansimeon on Dec 21, 2011 6:18 PM
Got it fixed for the single songs, change the album artist to AAAA then clear the album artist and all is looking good. worked each time

Does iTunes take album art with it from computer to computer?

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