Syncing Artwork to iPad Freezes iTunes Sync

Hello,
When I plugged in my iPad 2 today to back it up, the sync seems to hang. The message I see in the iTunes window is "Syncing Artwork to 'iPad' (Step 8 of 8) Waiting for items to copy". It has been like this for quite a long time, and I am not sure what is going on. I went to the Devices menu in iTunes, and I checked to see if there was something from my iPad Sketchbook that was trying to sync, but there is nothing in the window.
Am I doing something wrong? I have never had this behavior before.
I am running iOS 5 and Lion.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I don't hav any solution, I'm just chiming in with the same problem. My iPad 2 has been trying to sync artwork all night and hasn't proceeded a bit.
The iTunes window text says:
Syncing Artwork to "<iPad-name>" (Step 6 of 6)
Waiting for items to copy
The iPad has continuously display the sync icon in the upper left corner, but as stated nothing has happened the last 8 hours!
I then tried to eject from iTunes and a warning told me that the iPad was syncing and this would cancel the operation. Knowing that the alleged syncing was not going to complete this century I continued and then unplugged the iPad.
Connecting the iPad again and waiting resulted in the same scenario, but now on a different step:
Syncing "<iPad-name>" (Step 7 of 7)
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Waiting an hour for this still didn't result in anything.
I'm suspecting that there is something after these steps that are failing. E.g copying purchases from iPad to iTunes?
OSX Lion 10.7.2
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iPad 2 32GB Wifi+3G on iOS 5
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