How to delete photo albums previously synchronized with iCloud

I previously set my iPhone to enable photo streaming. I also set iTunes to backup to iCloud. After a while, I decided to revert to back up and sychronize with my PC. I also disabled photo streaming. Prior to this change, my photo albums got uploaded to iCloud including a particular album which I subsequently deleted from my PC photo folders. When I tried to synchronize through iTunes, the album will not get removed in my iPhone, even if it is no longer in my PC photo folder. I assumed it got stuck in the iCloud but I have already disabled photo streaming and this was supposed to delete all photos in iCloud.
I tried all sorts of suggestions, but short of restoring, which I find such a ridiculous solution because it would delete all my data and all I wanted was to delete this one empty folder. Eventually I stumbled upon a simple yet effective one. Here's what I did:
1. Connected the iPhone to my PC which fired up iTunes (I set this as my default).
2. Clicked on my iPhone under Devices.
3. Under Summary, selected Backup to this Computer. [This is to make sure I have a most recent backup of my iPhone files]
4. Clicked Sync button.
5. Clicked Photos tab (rightmost tab)
6. Unchecked Sync Photos From box. [This will delete all photos in the iPhone]
7. Clicked Sync button again.
8. When sychronization finished, ejected the iPhone from iTunes by clicking on the eject icon to the right of your iPhone's name.
9. Went to Photos in the iPhone. Only Camera Roll and the empty Album appeared. I clicked on Edit and a red (do not enter sign) icon appeared to the left of the empty Album name. Tapped that and proceeded to delete the album. No more albums would be displayed. [Note: The red icon did not show up previously when there were other albums listed.]
10. Reconnected my iPhone to PC, starting up iTunes.
11. Went to Photos tab.
12. Checked Sync Photos From box again. [This will restore all your selected photos/albums to the iPhone]
13. Clicked Sync button again.
14. When synchronization finished, ejected the iPhone from iTunes.
15. Checked the Photos album. The empty folder is no longer there!
Hope this helps others with a similar issue.

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