Cannot access correct iPhoto library during iPhone sync

Hi, I have several iPhoto libraries, and currently have the main one identified as the default. However, when I sync my iPhone it only sees one of the others (which I accessed yesterday). I have opened and closed ITunes and iPhoto several times each in an attempt to reset them, but no dice.
Any other suggestions?
Thanks...

OK, thanks. Did all that...but I can't tell what's going on.
The iPhoto library it's pointing to has no albums at all, so I have only the choice of "All photos and albums" or the number of events.
If I scroll down to the Pictures folder in the Sync photos from option, it contains the folders from the other library.
This pretty much what it's looked like since I started having the problem -- even though can't say for sure when that was...

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