Corrupt Photo thumbnails

Hi,
I have a current (3rd) gen iPod touch 32 GB. Currently running iOS 4. I sync to a PowerMac G5 running 10.5.8 I also have iPhoto 09. All updated with the latest updates.
Now, when I sync all the photos from my iPhoto library, they all sync fine, no errors, but when I view them on the iPod, the thumbnail previews are either white, or corrupt images, but when I tap on the image, it's fine. It's doing this with about 40% of the images, mostly ones from the internet (as opposed to images from my digital camera). I've had this issue on iOS 3.X as well, so it's not due to iOS 4.
I've copied my images to my PC, and done a reset on the iPod, and syned from the PC, same issue. So it's not the PC/Mac, it must be the images, but they're fine on the PC/Mac, previews etc fine on there, only on the iPod

Hi!
I've just updatd my iOS from 4.0 to 4.0.1. After phone restore my photos under "camera reel" are corrupted (black blocks instead of thumbnails) and Photo application crashes when I tap "Locations". How I can fix it?

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