A puzzle - smart collections - develop preset, numbers doesnt add up

Hi
I was playing with the smart collection tonight, and specifically wanted to find out how the "Develop preset" smart collection would work. In this process I made a smart collection as the below.
Match = Any
Develop preset = Default
Develop preset = Specific
Develop preset = Custom
In other words a smart collection with all the different possibilities for Develop preset.
This smart collections says it has 2048 pictures. In my catalog I have a total of 2044 pictures. When I go into the collection and select all pictures it select 2044.
Why does it comes up as 2048?
To figure out the reason for the difference of 4, I then tried the different combinations of develop preset and found out that the virtual copies gets registered as both "Default" and "Custom". I have 3 virtual copies in the catalog so even if this is the reason for the mismatch I still have a difference of 1 I cant explain.
Any one who has a logic explanation to this or is it a bug?
Edit: I looked a bit further, and can see that at the when I go to the end of the grid in the smart collection I can see the numbers 2045 - 2048 but there is no picture here, and furthermore in the filmstrip there is 4 grey boxes at the end, but no picture shown in them. So seems to be an error, so question is there a way I can get rid of these "ghost" pictures.
Regards
Soren

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