Apple Tv Photo Syncing

Have a situation where the photo count showing in the photo tab pane of iTunes (with Apple TV selected) is not the same number as when viewed inside iPhoto with photo counts turned on.
This is effecting sync to the Apple TV whereby only the ones showing up in iTunes are ones that ultimately get synced to the Apple TV so it's not just a visual issue as reported on some posts. In this case, when selecting all photos, the Apple TV has access to about 500 of the actual 2,200 photos in the library.
I have done obvious things like software updating, clearing cache and rebuilding the iPhoto library. It's not the Apple TV as I have completely reset it and when linked to my laptop, all photo counts are exact when linked to my machine.
I suspect either the internal iPhoto library data is corrupt or perhaps there is something in the title data that's throwing off iTunes when trying to read the library. Has anyone encountered any naming convention issues when naming titles in iPhoto?
It appears I am heading for a manual rebuild of this person's iPhoto library which of course I would like to avoid like swine flu....

Turns out the iPhoto library is hosed.
However, coming to that conclusion made me take a long and winding path.
Let me explain. I was all "fixated" on the photo counts being off between the iPhoto application and the iTunes applications inside the 'Photo" tab when syncing photos to an Apple TV. From what I can tell, these counts are not counting the same thing. Where is "Count" on Sesame Street when you need him or shall I say, the apple programmer that codes the counting in iPhoto does not talk to the apple programmer that codes the counting in iTunes for syncing.
The count in iPhoto clearly reflects the number of thumbnails while the count in iTunes counts the originals. So of course I am dealing with an iPhoto library that is missing a bunch of originals but the count in iPhoto tells me all is good.
Just an FYI for anyone else who might encounter this same situation and hopefully avoid my trail in the woods without a compass.
Now it's off to figuring out how to reconstruct this library...

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