Duplicate photos in my photo library and another photo album?

So I don't know if this has to do with the ios 6 update I just did on my phone (most likely it is), but today i synced my phone like usual. I have two albums on my phoone besides the Camera roll. I have the photo library ( which i think all iphones have) & one album i called "uploaded photos". As you may know, the photo library has the same pictures as the ones in my "uploaded photos" album. So each one has 300 photos in them, but for some reason when I synced it today, the photos all got doubled/ duplicated. so instead of 300 photos, theres 600. There's just a duplicate of each picture? It's really bothering me because I don't want double the photos in each album, thats too much! I hope this makes sense, but does any one know how to fix it?

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