Movie & TV artwork missing once external HD disconnected

I have manually uploaded all the artwork for my movies and TV shows through iTunes.  Done by "get info" and adding to the "artwork" tab.
All my movies/tv shows and the artwork are on an external HD.  Last night I had to disconnect the drive for a moment.
When I plugged it back in and opened iTunes all the artwork is missing.
If I right click>get info it comes back.  HOWEVER only if it is done individually to each movie/show.
There must be a faster way rather than going though hundreds of movies/show and doing them one by one?
thanks!

I hate this problem.  I have 60+ children's movies ripped from my DVD collection, and I'd say it happens about once a month or more.  I did just find a solution that some cool guy named Doug created, found over on dougscripts.  Here's the link, or you can google it.  He wrote it to reembedartwork back into the file or something that I have no idea about, but it worked. Anyhow, good luck.
http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=reembedartwork
I just followed the instructions and it worked for me just fine!
DH

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