HT4236 Photos duplicate and triplicate on syncing iPhone or iPad

For some reason I have duplicate and triplicate images of the same photo on my iPhone and iPad after syncing with iTunes. I have tried deleting them by syncing and removing the photos check box and then starting over with a new sync, but they are still there.

Thanks Jim .... do you think rsync running by cron would do it?  Then also, would it create problems overwriting files that are used in the management of the content if both computers are using iTunes at the same time?
That was my next thought, well, even if I was not going to be able to do this I still want to sync all the data on both systems ... then I have an additional backup as well.
Thanks.
By the way, it is my portable devices, iPhone and iPad that I want to sync, you got that I think.

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