Apple TV - Photos - Including Events

After upgrade to iTunes 9 (running Snow Leopard after a clean install), I wanted to take advantage of the increased granularity of photo syncing w/ Apple TV via iTunes. So I have it set to Sync Photos from iPhoto, and the second option selected "Selected albums, events, and faces and automatically include _". I checked "all events" as I like to have the AppleTV show my Photos by event.
I also select all albums and all faces so that all the content is synced over.
My problem is that where it asks to sync "all events" or you can choose no events, last 20 events, etc. I have selected "all events" but every day or so, randomly (not every restart, not every sync, etc.) it switches back to "no events" which means I can no longer choose photos by events on my appleTV, even though the photos remain on the appleTV.
Anyone else see anything like this? Seems like a bug but curious if there is a way to "fix."
Thanks,

Update : I see a lot of "me too's" on this thread - and most of you are complaining about having to re-sync photos. Here is a trick, as I never had to resync my entire photo collection - create a smart album that contains ALL of your pictures in iPhoto. Then, you have it set to sync "Selected albums, events, and aces, and automatically include _ events" (where the _ events keeps reverting to "no" but should be "all" or something other than no_). Now, select at LEAST the album that has all of your photos, and then each time it drops the events selection back to "no" the photos themselves will stay on your tv. You will lose the events (i.e. if you browse Photos on tv it will only show you that one smart album, or let you see "all photos", but they will still be there), but can then fix the bug by re-selecting "all" events and then re-sync, and it won't have to recopy every photo.
By the way I do this as I have rated most of my photos and therefore have smart albums for *, **, *, **, *** and "unrated" photos (no, not the dirty kind) so as long as those albums are selected it encompasses my entire iPhoto library.
Hopefully this saves you some syncing time. Definitely still a bug but not quite as bad if you don't have to wait for it to re-sync.
And another by the way, I have stopped automatically syncing my tv anyway b/c I didn't like it to start syncing everytime I added a video/tv show/etc. before I could edit the metadata - b/c half of my "syncs" crash the tvs - DEFINITELY waiting for an update to this handy device.

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