Most of my album artwork is missing

i have recently moved my itunes library from my family desktop to my laptop. i used my sister's ipod video as a harddrive for this, then reattached my ipod touch 2 the laptop, getting me my music again. but i have now discovered that some of the album artwork is missing from albums, particularly one's recently bought or burned. i have retrieved the album artwork from apple and it is showing on the laptop but not on the ipod. is there anyway i can get the album artwork back, as on an ipod touch the album artwork is a pretty big feature?

To rectify the art on your touch do this:
Try clicking "sync music" in iTunes to "off"
then sync >>> all your music should disappear from the touch.
Then click "sync music" to "on" and re-sync.
it worked for me

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