Syncing photos from the iPhoto library to iPad.

I'm trying to sync some photos to my ipad 2 using itunes from the iphoto library, but when I tries to sync my photos to my ipad, there's a error message says "unable to sync ipad. Can not find the necessary files" But I have a iPod and it syncs just fine from the the same iPhoto library.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!
Daniel

Hi,
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