Photos Take Up Space After Deletion, Also Can't Be Transferred

A primary use for my iPad atm is previewing my shots made on the field with a Camera Connection Kit. However, a problem I noticed pretty early on is certain files would be corrupt when transferred onto my iPad, and certain files would fail to appear when I synced my iPad to my iMac. Furthermore, upon deletion on the iPad, the photos seem to still be taking up space on my iPad (over 12GB unfortunately). I can't delete them through Image Capture or iPhoto (or find them at all) which suggests that the data has successfully deleted, but the graph at the bottom of my iPad page in iTunes proves otherwise.
Is there any way I can check to see if the photos are actually there?
If the photos are there, is there any way I can delete them short of wiping my whole iPad?
If I'm unclear in any of this I'll be happy to clarify.
Thank you for your time and help,
Eric

Very very odd situation now. During a sync iTunes asked me whether or not to remove the photos (bar the Camera Roll shots) and I click yes, hoping it would solve my issue. However, it has only presented me with more confusion (and frustration). The following screenshots will explain my plight:
First, the odd "ghost" events, all dated August 7th, around the time this issue first cropped up. When I tap into any of them, I'm presented with an empty page with an empty toolbar. No option to delete them, or anything to explain their being there.
Now, while I'm looking around (for the nth time) in the Photos tab of my iPad sync page for something to let me clear my Photos app, I see something off about my drive space graph. The "Free space" section is clearly out of proportion, which in a graph is obviously not supposed to happen. So, I go to the About page on my iPad to find out what's going on...
At least my ghost photos are truly ghosts now... they aren't even being listed as Photos anymore! Looking down I see that I have 7GB of free space left. Hmm... subtracting my 12GB worth of ghost photos from my iTunes listed free space gives you 7GB. So it looks like iTunes is both seeing my ghost photos (shown as orange in graph) and not seeing them (as evidenced by the incorrect/correct free space statistic). Similarly, my iPad sees the photos (only 7GB of free space left) and does not (only 69 photos listed). It'd be less confusing if both devices agreed to see and not see the same thing, but my iPad claims a different free space statistic from iTunes!
I'm just as confused as my devices are. Can anyone shed some light on this mind boggling situation?

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