There's no logical reason why WMP11 is still showing you the low-res version of the album art. What happens if you take one of those files with the embedded album art (1 MB embedding is pretty big!) and play it on WMP on another computer? Does it show you the high-res album art?
What about uninstalling and re-installing WMP11?
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