Unable to modify album art.

I am in the middle of getting album art for all of my music and haven't had any problems until now. I download the images and drag the file onto the music files to apply the art and it worked perfectly until recently. For some inexplicable reason I cannot modify the art myself anymore. When dragging the image all that appears is a crossed circle rather than a plus sign.
I made sure that all of the songs had read and write permission and looked for any other hidden options that may disallow me to change the artwork.
Has anyone had a similar problem and fixed it? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to repair my problem?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Windows XP

Yep. iTunes 7.3 is trash. I had 7.1 installed into Vista and everything worked fine until I upgraded to 7.3. All my music is uncompressed AIF and all are properly tagged with artwork I restored from images around the net. When I cleared my library and added them again, the artwork was missing from all view settings. 7.3 has issues with displaying artwork. I've never had a single issue with this software until now.
I have an iPod and I need iTunes to work properly. Perhaps I'll just revert back to 7.1 and forget about upgrading again since the version I have works just fine.

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