Removing album art from MP3s on the Z

I've been reading around on the forums and haven't found a definiti've for my problem.
The problem that I have is when I transfer MP3s to my Zen Vision:M, these MP3s somehow get edited with album art. The original files show no evidence of album art, as I have tried numerous programs to try to find it and delete it. Windows Media Player 0, MusicMatch, iTunes, and a few other programs show that these files do not contain album art, yet when I transfer these files to my ZVM they somehow get embedded with album art.
I tried using the Media Explorer to delete the album art once the files are transferred to the ZVM, but you can't edit it. I set Media Explorer to show the album art, but you can't right click or do anything on the album art that is shown.
Does anyone have any solutions to this? Somehow the album art isn't placed onto the file until I transfer onto the ZVM. And it only adds album art to files which have have no album information in its tag or has album art.

You can use Zortam MP3 Media Studio 6.0 to remove album art that is in the ID3 tag. It cost around $25, but it seems to be a good program.
http://www.zortam.com
Why would you want to get rid of the album art?

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Removing album art from MP3s on the Z

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