Missing Album Artwork

I have this weird thing happening.. The puchased album does not show up when you look at it, yet the artist/album name is below it. It is completely black (no music note) but when you scroll to either side, you can than see the album cover picture.. Anyone know how to fix this?

Brian -
Do you mean that if iTunes is showing the album art, but it's not showing up on the iPod, then one would have to erase the songs off the pod & reload everything?
I ask because I have an album art problem that I'm currently scanning the archives to try and correct & I just ran across this message.
Just before leaving on vacation last week I changed the controls to do only manual updates between iPod & iTunes in case I had to hook up to my sister's computer to download/store photos on iPod's harddrive. I discovered I didn't have album art on the pod when I was on my first flight (BTW - iPod worked on all 4 commercial airline flights I was on with no problem).
When I got home last night, I checked iTunes and it still contains all the album art. I thought that was good, since I didn't want to reload all those albums (luckily, I did have it all backed up on a separates drive, so all it would take me is time). I hooked up the iPod and went to change the controls back to automatic updates. When I was on the page, I discovered that before my vacation, I also unchecked the "show album art" box for the pod. COOL! I thought - There's my problem! I of course assumed that when iPod went back through to update with iTunes, the album art would be reinstated on the pod.
Nope.
I just put on 3 albums onto iTunes and downloaded them onto the pod, and when I did it, the album art for those 3 albums are on the pod, but, it didn't kick back on all the other album arts that are sitting on the tracks on iTunes.
So, am I reading you right that I am going to have to do a total restore on my iPod and reinstall everything back onto the iPod? (I've done restarts - or have attempted to, and it doesn't change anything).
Thank you for your time and I hope that I was able to explain my situation clearly enough.
KC

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