IPhoto showing incorrect photos on iPhone "device" - help or feedback???

I've been having this problem for months and alluded to it in a previous post. It has followed my iPhone during a migration from 3G to 3GS and I'm guessing it's a bad file, but not sure which one...
When I plug my iPhone 3GS via USB cable iTunes and iPhoto both launch (I have iPhoto set to launch when camera connected in the app Preferences). In iTunes I have my 3GS set to sync several albums only (however, this problem occurred even when I had it set to sync ALL photos and albums). If I view the "Device" in iPhoto, however, it shows a bunch of pics which, though they exist in iPhoto, they are NOT on the Camera Roll, nor are they even photos that are in the albums that I have selected to sync. It's my understanding that they only thing I should be seeing in iPhoto under the iPhone device when the iPhone is connected is pictures taken by the iPhone itself and I select which of these to import. But, what is actually displayed is a random smattering of photos from my iPhoto photo albums... and I mean random. I also have numerous random "ghost" images which are empty squares with dotted line border and rounded corners which are interposed between actual images.
I previously had this problem but it seemed to fix itself after a restart of the iPhone (power off and then on) and permissions repair... though not certain if any of those actually fixed it or just coincidence. This problem persisted even after restoring from a 3G to my current 3GS and an upgrade from 10.5 to 10.6 (actually 10.6.1 at this point).
I am certain there is a corrupt file somewhere but don't know where to start. Any feedback on how to fix this?

Following instructions in this thread to delete the DCIM folder completely resolved this problem in case anyone needs it:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10246947#10246947

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