Moved Library from external HDD to MyBook NAS...

Hello forum - I am both perplexed and frustrated.  I have moved my entire itunes library from one external drive to another network drive.  I re-pointed iTunes to it's appropriate library.itl file.  All music, movies, audiobook, etc. seem to appear.  Two things do not appear:
1. The bulk of my artwork.  99% of my library has artwork which I manually embedded which is what I find strange as it seems that often that is the suggested fix when it is missing.  Any thoughts? Is there a way to have itunes re-scan a folder and re-populate?
2. The "Shared Library" icon on the left hand side is also vanished.  It does appear that home Sharing is on - but no icon.
I'm using the latest version of itunes, OSX Mountain lion 10.8.2 on 15" MBPr 2.3GHz.
FWIW - originally library was on a WD MyBook external drive.  I transferred it to a WD MyBook Live Duo drive which is plugged into my airport extreme (latest model).
Thanks in advance for any advice. 
Steve

Ok - I may have resolved this (let you know in about 2 days...).  New question;
I did a library re-organization with iTunes.  The heirarchy of folders seems weird - is this normal or "ok"?
On external drive:
There is content located in Music, Movies, etc. but there is alos content including Music, Movies, etc in the "iTunes Media Folder" - is that the way it i ssupposed to be? Seems like all music should be in one place - yes/no?
Thanks - Steve

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