My music is all (cover)flowing together (Picture)

On my Windows XP machine, my cover arts seem to all 'flow' together - in Coverflow the covers on some will mix into one another. It doesnt happen on all my music (and the ones it does happen on do show the correct art in the "Now Playing" coverart box. I've tried just about everything I can think of besides removing it all and re-importing the covers, but with so many of them it would be a lengthy task!
Here's an example of a few of them:
One Nine Inch Nails album blends with another, and that 2nd Nine Inch Nails album blends with a No Doubt album. It's usually the album right next to it, but in this case the No Doubt album is a few albums away from the Nine Inch Nails ones.
I'm on the latest version of iTunes if it helps.
EDIT:
Here's what I believe is a related problem:
The picture on the bottom left is the preview art in the "Now Playing" box - to the right is from the Coverflow area.. you can see the full art in the "Now Playing" box but in the coverflow box is what appears to be missing data (the green parts flash and have "matrix like" effects - bonus feature? )

Going to bump this in case anybody has an idea on why this might be happening (or how to fix it).

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Since I updated my iPhone 4 to iOS 5, Cover Flow in Music app is terribly slow... Lag to see the covers. I've heard over there that iOS 5 doesn't reduce the size of the covers to a standard, so the iPhone has to resize them everytime you watch them.
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I have a black diagonal line across every cover when use the cover flow view. Even in the iTunes store, in the tv shows or music videos, in cover flow view, I still see a black diagonal line across the cover.
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Is Cover Flow the only way to browse music?

I hate Cover Flow. It's ugly, gaudy and difficult for me to use. Does the iPhone require Cover Flow to browse music at all, or can you do it in any way that resembles the old iPod interface?

The vertical interface (non-coverflow) looks pretty much just like the other ipods. There are some minor differences but you browse the same way as on an ipod. But instead of moving your thumb in a circle around the scroll wheel you just flick it up and down on the screen to move through files. I think it works better, faster, and more accurate than the scroll wheel.

I can't see my pictures in teh finder using Quick look or Cover flow

I have iPhoto8 installed and it works fine, but I cannot get a look at my library of photos without opening iPhoto. I thought I was supposed to be able to use the finder and cover flow to see my pictures quickly to find the one I wanted without opening iPhoto? When I go to pictures I get the icon for the iphoto program and it says iphoto library, but I cant see pictures. Am I doing something wrong?

OBGYNDR
With iPhoto 7 the old iPhoto Library Folder has become a Unix Style Package folder. The change was made to the format of the iPhoto library because many users were inadvertently corrupting their library by browsing through it with other software or making changes in it themselves.
There are many, many ways to access your files in iPhoto:
For 10.5 users: You can use any Open / Attach / Browse dialogue. On the left there's a Media heading, your pics can be accessed there. Apple-Click for selecting multiple pics.
To upload to a site that does not have an iPhoto Export Plug-in the recommended way is to Select the Pic in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export and export the pic to the desktop, then upload from there. After the upload you can trash the pic on the desktop. It's only a copy and your original is safe in iPhoto.
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2. *File -> Export*: Select the files in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Export. The dialogue will give you various options, including altering the format, naming the files and changing the size. Again, producing a copy.
3. *Show File*: Right- (or Control-) Click on a pic and in the resulting dialogue choose 'Show File'. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected.
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Regards
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Album covers not all appearing in Cover Flow

I have a new iPhone 5, (IOS 6.0.1) and I restored all of my apps from a backup of my iPhone 4 (IOS 6.0.1). I notice that my album covers do not all appear in Cover Flow mode. I checked my iPhone 4, before resetting it, and it had the same problem. I deleted the music from my iPhone 5 and restored all of the playlists from my MacPro and still have the problem. I cannot detect and differences between those that appear and those that do not appear. Any ideas?
And btw, I manually installed he Album Art on each Album, I did not use iTunes to search for Album Art.

Does this article help?
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My music is all (cover)flowing together (Picture)

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