330 Mb of "hidden" photos? ORLY!

I cannot for the life of me figure out why iTunes is reporting that I have 330 Mb of photos after I have unchecked all of my photos albums. If I sync "Selected Albums" in iTunes and uncheck everything "so I'm syncing "0 albums"), iTunes reports 330 Mb of "Photos" on the iPhone on the main screen (the yellow portion of the capacity bar). If I uncheck "Sync photos from" entirely, the 330 Mb disappears on the next sync. Checking it brings back the 330 Mb of "Phantom" pictures. The Photo app on the iPhone displays only the "Camera roll" album when I have "0 albums" chosen, and it has 40 pictures, only 6 of which are over 150k (these six weigh in around 1Mb each).
To make things even weirder, when I uncheck "sync photos from," the yellow segment on the capacity bar labelled "Photos" disappears, but the free space only increases by 10Mb and an orange "Others" section weighing in at 60Mb appears. None of the other indicators change in size. -330 +60 =/= -10
I am COMPLETELY confused.

Hi,
Try deleting the iPod photo Cache that is described here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314
If the issue persists, try restarting or restoring the iPhone.
You can restart the iPhone by holding the Sleep/Wake button until the red slider appears> then slide to turn off> and turn the iPhone back on by pressing the Sleep/Wake again, as described on page 46 of the iPhone User Guide.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhoneUserGuide.pdf
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414 will walk you through restoring the iPhone.
-Jason

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