N8 Music Synchronization - how to clear all songs ...

Background:
I quickly synced a stack of songs from my N97 sync in Windows Media Player (Win 7). Naturally the sync was way larger than the storage capacity on the N8.
When I had more time, I went back and made a more conservative sized playlist and went to do what I would have done on the N97: Deleted all folders in the "Music" directory on the Mass Storage drive. Seeing there was an "Albums" folder with .alb files in it I also toasted them (must be related right).
Method:
1. Connect N8 in Mass Storage mode
2. Delete Music and Albums folders.
3. Sync playlist using WMP
4. Disconnect and rebuild library.
Result:
My music library has very little album art now.
It seems to be incorrectly ordered and grouped by artist-album instead of album-artist
It is basically a mess.
Other info:
Got a message after sync was complete that I should consider using Ovi Suite mode (what was previously called PC Suite mode) to sync songs in future.
I didn't use this method to sync because I found some folders on the device could not be deleted. The phone seemed to lock up. This did not happen in Mass Storage mode.
Questions:
1. How do you correctly delete all songs on the N8 mass storage drive (including all supporting/supplementary files) and database files (if necessary).
2. How does Ovi Suite mode differ from Mass Storage mode in the way it manages Music Sync?
Nokia N8

OK. I have got perfect album art synching using MediaMonkey.
Connect using Mass Storage and then configure your device (Assume its a memory card and you can tell it how to do folder structure). I tried doing this initially using default settings and 90% of my music (all embedded art) appeared fine, with just a few missing.
Take 2. In device configuration, get it to copy the art over as folder.jpg as well. Then refresh music library, and the device will create .alb files (not picked up by the photo gallery, unlike the folder.jpgs!). Then, still connected in Mass storage mode search your music folder for all .jpg and delete, leaving just the .alb.
No missing art. No covers in photo browser. Best solution I have so far.

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