Not even Apple Genius could help

Question

I have a couple of problems concerning my new itouch, took it into the Apple store on 5th Av yest and the guy spent an hour looking amd was really not helpful.
Last month I (I am a geek) made sure that all songs in my itunes account had artist art (or whatever it is called) I did this by a) doing the auto update available under advanced tab and b) dragging and repasting from Amazon those covers I did not have. I synched my 30MG ipod and all worked beautifully.
I buy an itouch. I synched it to my itunes (I was not in a wireless area and did not register it). It was annoying to find that only one or 2 covers were transpoprted intot he itouch and the rest were the grey album coves with the music note (including stuf recently bought from itunes) Also I noticed that hardly any of my purchased material made it onto my ipod.
I first problem was the art - after about an hour the genius tells me the art files are corrupted - I need to cut them all out - go back to amazon and regrag them in. To his credit on the 2 that we tested this worked but its gonna be a massive bummer - and I dont understand why it works on my old ipod and not the new one.
1 - does anybody know how to get round this - I was going to restore to factory settings and try again
2 - He mentioned some other album programme called cover scout or something whcih might be able to help, does anybody know anything about this programme and whether it would be any good
3 - I am worried about not getting my purchased music onto the ipod - do you think that because i did not register it to the account that I use, it wont pick up the music i have used on that account......
Has anybody else experienced similar problems, the genius i felt did not have a great grasp of the problem..........

Answer 1

Ohnj,
I presume that you are no longer trying to use iCloud for syncing with the "Flat Panel." It will not work since you are using OS X 10.5.8.
Quit iCal, go to your Macintosh HD/Users/yourusername/Library/Calendars folder and remove any/all files with "Cache" as a part of the file name. Then log out/in or restart and see what happens.