How to eliminate multiple invisible "Recovered Photos" folders?

Background:
OS 10.7.5
MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
iPhoto 11 9.4.2
iTunes 11.0.2 (26)
15,258 photos
When I go to sync any iDevice in iTunes 11, multiple "Recovered Photos" folders appear as folders in the "Albums" list.
These folders "Recovered Photos," "Recovered Photos(1)," etc. do NOT appear in my iPhoto 11 Albums.
At present they appear to cause no harm, but I'm one who believes that "where there's smoke, there's fire" in the "computers behaving weirdly" department, so I set about to find and eliminate these phantom folders.
I tried all the "rebuild/restore" functions in iPhoto. This did not work.
I tried iPhoto Library Manager 3.8.6 (have not paid to upgrade to 4) to rebuild the library. This resulted in the "Recovered Photos" folders all appearing in the iPhoto Albums list where they were deletable, but all my Keywords and Smart Albums had been wiped out.
Any ideas on how to end up with a clean iPhoto library, complete with keywords, albums and smart albums preserved, but without these phantom folders, or is this library FUBAR?
Thanks,
Rob

You can use the free demo of iPLM 4 to rebuild the library.
You can try the following:
1 - close iPhoto.
2 - open the iPhoto Library package with the Finder:
3 - move the AlbumData.xml file to the Desktop.
4 - lanuch iPhoto and check to see if there's any change.
If that doesn't help you can move the file back into the package if there's any problem with the library.  If not then trash it.
OT

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