Syncing JPG Thumbnails to individual MP3s

Hi All,
I have a presentation to make and deliver to a number of people. What I want to do is have several MP3s of a speech and connect JPG/PNG thumbnails to them similar to that of album thumbnails. The final delivery device is for iPods. How could I provide the JPGs and MP3s to people without them having to open itunes, drop each respective thumbnail into each track (as an album thumbnail) and then sync it to their ipod in order to see the images when they play it back on their iPods? If I do the above in iTunes myself, and export MP3s will it "bundle" the jpgs with it?
Thanks
Cent

Thanks for the advice but it didn't seem to work
I've decided to try ditching iPhoto and orgainising, syncing my photo's to all devices from Aperture
I have so far imported over 1200 photo's (relocating and renaming the master files as well) and find that when syncing through iTunes only 209 photo's are listed. The Projects/Albums are there but some indicate that there are 0 photo's in them when I know other wise (at least according to whats happing in Aperture)
I'm starting to suspect it may be a computer problem
Any thoughts?
Regards
Mark
PS: Just after posting this I restarted my computer, went into iTunes and my Apple TV started to sync. It was now syncing 854 photo's not 209 as before.

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