iPod turn off art display on iPod Classic?

Hi all, and Happy 2011. I received my first iPod for Xmas, a Classic. I have loaded lots of music and am enjoying the device. 99% of the tracks I've loaded are from my own CDs, and so there is no art to go with them. Which is fine by me. I have discovered that some of the other 1% do have art, which I have never seen before as I don't use the iTunes options that display it.

Ideally I would like to turn off the art display completely on the iPod. Is there a hack for this, or a hidden preference? It would be nice to lose the default blank art too, if possible.

The irritating part of the display is the split-screen menu, where the art drifts around on the right.

I suspect that there is no neat solution to this, and that my work around will be to delete the art in the files on the iPod via iTunes. But I'd love to be proved wrong!

Thanks, Phil.

I've now deleted all the art from my iPod, and the right side of the screen now displays a musical note with the number of songs underneath. This is acceptable as at least it is static and doesn't drift about.

If the default image had moved around, I was planning to upload a plain black square as art for one of my files, but this was not necessary.