How do I sync only 40 of my 500 photos in iPhoto to my iPhone?

Question: How do I sync only 40 of my 500 photos in iPhoto to my iPhone?
This is what I did:
1-Created a "New Album" in iPhoto
2-Named it "iPhone"
3-Dragged in the 40 photos (of the 500 photos in my iPhoto library) into the "New Album" named iPhone
4-Synced.
Result: Now when I go to the "Photo" widget on my iPhone I see:
"Camera Roll" "iPhoto (40)" and "iPhone (40)"
Why is it showing that I have the same 40 photos in under "iPhoto" and "IPhone"?
Shouldn't it say only "Camera Roll" and iPhone (40)"? Thanks!

You only have 40 photos on the phone, and there are not 40 duplicates.
What you're seeing is not unlike iTunes, where you have Library, and under it, playlists. Think of the album "iPhone" as a playlist, and "iPhoto" as the Library.
If you added another album called "iPhone2" and synched again, you would see "iPhoto", "iPhone", and "iPhone2". "iPhoto" would show all the photos from both "iPhone" and "iPhone2".
Make sense?

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