After Leopard Upgrade iPod won't sync photos

My ipods will no longer sync my iPhoto libraries. When attempting to sync, I get this message:
The ipod could not be synched. The disk could not be read from or written to.
However, music and contacts sync OK. If I chose random photos not in iPhoto, they sync. I get the same message both with my nano and my old G4 color display iPod. I recently installed Leopard but am running iLife 2006 and suspect there's an incompatibility.
I have reset my iPod, restored it, run it with disk use enabled and disabled, but other than burning time, I am no closer to solving the problem. Actually, I'm worse off. When I reset the iPod, my saved pictures disappeared and now can't be restored.
Any advice?

See if this troubleshooting article helps.
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