Strange cover flow behavior

Just got a 32 GB iPod Touch, and I'm encountering an odd bug with cover flow. For example: say I want to play Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black". If I choose the album from list view, the correct artwork comes up. If I flip horizontal and look at cover flow, for some reason it displays the cover of Miles Davis & John Coltrane: The Complete Recordings. If I then tap in the info button to see the song list, the miniature version of the cover art in the upper right hand corner is the correct Amy Winehouse cover.
The iPod seems to have a perverse sense of humor ... it has assigned the Sex Pistols's "Nevermind the Bollocks ..." the cover of the Beatles' "Rubber Soul"!
Again, this is only when viewing in cover flow ... the miniature version on the info page is fine, as is the artwork that displays when the ipod is vertical.
Incidentally, I also have an iPhone, with some music that is on both ... and the problem does not occur with cover flow on the iPhone. Weird, no?
Any ideas? I've tried copying over the correct artwork doing a select-all in iTunes, but no joy.

I have the exact same issue, and a cover art variation on my 8gb touch I got in September.
It ****** me off enough to restore my iPod, restoring it to defaults fixed the messed up artwork, but I don't know how long it will stay. However, it also created a new problem of some artwork not syncing at all.

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