[Milhouse]

Soooooo, are you suggesting the settings in AD should always be like this:

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Settings > Movies > Enable downloading = UNchecked (which blanks out all the artwork type choices)
    -and-
Settings > TV Shows > Enable downloading = UNchecked (which blanks out all the artwork type choices)
    -and-
Settings > Advanced > Use local files = UNchecked

and then it will only insert URLs to the database when it finds a hit for any art

Just the last one. The first two reference "downloading" but really it should say "processing" in place of "downloading", so you want them enabled/checked if you want them to actually do anything. The downloading is controlled by the confusingly named "Use local files" setting - with this enabled AD will write artwork into your file system (but without movie-name prefixes which aren't support) and it may also read any existing local artwork (again, only those without movie-name prefix).

AND then we use nr.4 above to download the URLs into our media folders ?

...finally completed by a texturecache.py c movies to pre-load all this new artwork... it that right ?

Yep.

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Time for this soldier to hit the barracks .

I thought you'd got rid of your VIDEO_TS folders? For the logo issue (which points to a non-existant VIDEO_TS-logo.png file) you should try the --nokeep option on mklocal.py - this will remove any non-existant artwork from your library. Once removed, running mklocal.py again should find the correct logo.png (it may even find it on the first run, I can't remember now...)