Albums won't sync to iPhone or iPod

This has been driving me crazy, can anybody help please? Here are the details...
* I'm up to date on iTunes, OSX and iPhoto. Always have been, always will be.
* I run an iPod Classic, iPhone 3G and iPod Nano 1G.
* I synch photos to the iPod and iPhone, not the Nano.
* When I plug in the iPod and iPhone, they sync everything except for the photos. When it gets to this stage I get a -50 error (seemingly generic error)
* This has only been happening for the last two weeks.
* This doesn't happen to the Nano.
* I run iPhoto from an external drive, always have.
* I've restored the iPhone to factory settings and still get the same problem.
* In iTunes, the "Albums" option is grayed out, when it wasn't before.
* By these deductions, it must be something to do with iPhoto.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Message:
"The iPhone * cannot be synced. An unknown error occurred (-50)."
I've always had 4 albums on my iPhone and they've always fit. They just decided one Wednesday not to. I keep around 1GB free on my 8GB phone. There are around 1500 photos. On the iPod I sync my whole iPhoto library which is around 20GB but I've still got 15GB free after that.
Neither of them want to sync any photos now.
Thanks for your concern.

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