Cannot copy photos from iPhone to Aperture or iPhoto

I've had this problem before: when connecting the iphone to the mac, and opening either Aperture or iPhoto, the images on the iPhone don't show up. Just empty squares, and an incorrect number of them. I followed the advice to delete photos from the iPHone until I killed the one that is causing the problem. That has worked in the past. Today, I've deleted them all. The iPhone is empty, but still iPhoto and Aperture think there are 73 images and presents them as outlines.
How do I get this straightened out?

RADumas,
It appears the photo files themselves became damaged at some point; restoring your iPhone wouldn't change this. This symptom usually doesn't indicate "phantom files"; they're the original files, but they're damaged to the point where they are unreadable.
Have you tried importing the photos using Image Capture? Also, if you try to import these images using a test user account, does the same issue occur?
Mac OS X 10.5 Help: Creating a new user account
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8235.html
If you restore your iPhone, setting it up as a new phone, this should erase the damaged photos from the iPhone (I assume you are viewing these files using the import options in iPhoto/ Aperture) and resolve any other software issues the iPhone may be experiencing.
If the test user or Image Capture does not allow you to import your photos, the only real solution to this would be if you had a known good backup of these photos someplace else (like an external hard disk drive, a CD/DVD, or another copy on your computer) that you could re-import into iPhoto or Aperture. This of course would mean at one point you were able to import these photos prior to this issue.
Raleigh
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