Two Media Folders? Different artwork for screensaver

Hi all,
Setup:
- Macbook Air
- Yosemite, OS X 10.10
- iTunes 12.0.1.26
- External HD
- Match subscriber
I have set up iTunes to have my media folder located on a portable hard drive and the library files (.itl, .xml, artwork etc) on the local machine. I use the iTunes artwork as a screensaver.
I have spent the past couple of months recovering from a corrupted .itl file. It wasn't the end of the world, all my media is on an external drive and I am also a Match subscriber, but I took the opportunity to run TuneUp Media over the library as I re-imported it to clean up track metadata, remove duplicates and so forth.
During this process I have uploaded clean songs to Match and I have downloaded songs that were somehow not in my library after I re-imported the music on my external hard drive.
For a fair while after doing all this work I noticed that I did not get any artwork for my screensaver if the external hard drive was not plugged in - which I found odd, given the artwork is stored on the local machine (or at least it seems to be).   Then I noticed I had a small amount of artwork showing repetitively on the screensaver...
As I investigated this it seems I have two Media folders. One on the local Macbook and one on the external hard drive.   The media folder on the local macbook contains songs that I have downloaded from iTunes Match as part of cleaning my library and Audiobooks that I have downloaded from Audible and then imported into iTunes.
If I look for a track that is stored in the media folder on the local machine, and then right-click on that track in iTunes to select "show in finder" it shows me that the media file is located on the External HD.
So it appears I files I am downloading from iTunes Match or adding from Safari are now being imported into a local "media" folder and then "consolidated" onto the External HD leaving them in both directories.
I'd like to not have duplicate data files and I would also like to get my entire iTunes artwork to show in screensaver when I do not have the External HD connected to the machine.
Does anyone have any advice?

If you store Album artwork the way i described using Command I (get info) - then the artwork is actually EMBEDDED in each song and is carried with that song wherever it goes.. and in this case it doesnt matter if u had 3 copies of the same album - all identical. You could even save a diff image for each tarck if u wanted.
If there is no artwork embedded, then coverflow places the image in a separate folder that is only referenced by iTunes for the whole CD.
You also might want to turn off coverlfow and continue doing what u had been doing in the past - add you won.
I also think i know what may be happening. You say they are identical except for track 2 - But problem is - I don't think iTunes can handle 2 identical CD's from the same artist.
Here's an experiment:
Goto any of the songs.... right-click and select "Show in Finder" the Finder will open and show you the song file and its location. Do you see one album once or 1 album twice?
If you see 2 of everything, i would recommend the following:
Rename the first album "December (2002)" and the second "December (2006)" then iTunes will definately separate them out.

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