Droid 3 - Gallery

I have my pictures in albums on my SD card. The Droid 3 will not show the albums in the Gallery App. All of my pictures are transfered to the phone but they are all separate and mixed up. Some are duplicated??. You can manually set up albums on the phone but I would rather have the info that is already on my SD card. Has anyone else had this problem? Verizon and Motorola are not able to help.

All my pictures are on my SD card. In (Droid3) Files - File Manager - SD card - DCIM --all of the pictures are there in separate folders (Family, Friends, etc., etc.) If I select a folder, all of the correct pictures are there.
On my old Droid 2, the Gallery would show the same folders. With the Droid 3, stock Gallery app - My Library - My library: Albums there are two folders: one has all of my videos and the other has all of my pictures. The pictures are all mixed up and some are duplicated. It looks like they are grouped by dates. For instance, one group shows “March, 2000” but the pictures under that date have nothing to do with that date??
In other words, the SD card and the Droid3/DCIM file match. The Gallery app on the Droid3 is different.
I did a search for “.nomedia” in SD card. 8 files found. All are 0 KB. Different dates. If I press on any of the files I get “unable to open this type of file.” Pressing menu does nothing.
The local Verizon store and Motorola support were unable to figure it out. I think the phone is so new they don’t really know what it does. There are some issues with the camera (blue tint with pics and more) that will need a software update to fix.
I can add Albums/Folders on the phone itself and then add the various pictures (can multi-select.) Way too much work and when I look at my SD card it still shows my old, original albums???
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