This is definitely NOT your mother's Album Art Dilemma...

Alright guys, need some help. I was getting curious about winamp the other day, and I must confess, I left my beloved iTunes for a copy of my friend's Winamp Pro account. He put it on my computer and I sifted through all the problems that comes with using a new media player (some album art wasn't appearing anymore, some genres got messed up, etc) so I changed them all back to the way they were. About a week ago I was getting sick of winamp and wanted to get back to my old faithful iTunes. So I completely uninstalled winamp (started by going through the control panel uninstall, then noticed that the uninstall wasn't completely full, so I had to get advice from the winamp boards on how to completely uninstall winamp. Turned out I had to go into the system registry and delete some stuff, so I did so. Anyway, I THOUGHT I uninstalled everything... but it seems as though there's still a problem... I converted everything back to iTunes, and now some of my album art won't show up. So you're thinking: "Just select the songs, drag and drop the artwork and you're done," right? Wrong my friends. My iTunes was in pristine condition, everything was perfect. And now, for a few of my albums, the album art is no longer a differentiable parameter. In other words, I select all the songs from an album, click "get info," drag the artwork into the box, click "ok," and nothing happens... seriously... nothing. And I've tried going into each individual song and adding the artwork... Tried dragging the artwork into the lower lefthand box that shows album art (the one that says "drag album artwork here")... Pretty much tried everything...
So, if you decided not to read all that, here's the short version. My album art is no longer a tweakable parameter. After switching to and back from winamp, my album artwork simply does not show up for some albums, and iTunes won't let me add artwork in any way (trust me... I've tried 'em all). Any suggestions?
Oh, and also, one weird thing is that, for a short while, the album art would not show up in the cover flow mode, but it would show up in the lower lefthand box when the song was selected. After switching to another song, the album art "magically" appeared in the cover flow... hmmmmm.....
HELP PLEASE!!

I used to have this problem whenever I brought music home from work (co-workers would bring it in and I'd take it home on a flash drive).
I found that there was something in the ID3 from WMP-9 that iTunes-6 wouldn't get around so the artwork was unchangeable.....until:
I selected all the songs that I couldn't add art for, and then went to Advanced, and chose "convert to mp3 - now "create mp3 version").
One iTunes had made a new copy, suddenly I could add the artwork.
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